If the first thing that pops into your head when you read the title Robot Ethics is science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, then you're like many of the rest of us. The Laws were ...

I, Robot's creatives pursued the idea of a sequel TV series that adapted more of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, which could've gone in a pretty wild direction.

Too tired to read the little ones a bedtime story after a long day? Japanese researchers may have had the time-poor parent in mind when they developed Ninomiya-kun, a robot capable of reading aloud ...

Robots are having a moment in children’s literature, which seems fitting in an increasingly digital world. Eliot Schrefer looks at four new kids’ books full of bits and bytes and beeps and boops. *** ...

Writer/director Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Lilo & Stitch) once again proves why he is one of the greats in multi-level animated storytelling: The Wild Robot movie is both a ...

Douglas Adams, whose vividly sentient android, Marvin, remained in a state of permanent, severe depression despite his planet-sized brain, famously summed up the three stages of sophistication of ...

He may claim to be our friend, but Elliot Alderson kept a whopper of a secret from Mr. Robot fans during Season 2 of USA’s acclaimed hacker drama. When the season began, Elliot (newly minted Emmy ...

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Let’s say you want to build a swarm of inch-long flying robots. (Maybe you’ve got a DARPA grant. Maybe it’s an art project—-imagine if those moved.) Flying is complicated and requires a lot of ...

It’s useful to think about Ford alongside the evolution of workers at Amazon. Presently the U.S.’s second largest employer, ...

Human beings are hardwired for social connection – so much so that we think of even the most basic objects as having feelings or experiences. (Yup, we're talking to you, Roomba owners!) Social robots ...