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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ben Hatke’s “Little Robot” follows the friendship that develops between a lost robot and a young girl who is handy with tools. An unnamed girl discovers the robot while exploring the woods near a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

If you ever wanted to win a bar bet about a world record, you probably know about the Guinness book for World Records. Did you know, though, that there are some robots in that book? Guinness ...