“WHAT DO YOU see right now?” a man asks a humanoid robot standing behind a table. “I see a red apple on a plate in the centre of the table, a drying rack with cups and a plate, and you standing nearby ...

On August 5, amid the controversy around Google’s introduction of Gemini, a chatbot aimed at children and accessible by default on Google apps, the company launched Gemini Storybook, an app offering ...