This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...

Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models made by or backed by the likes of Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI are ...

Xpeng’s flying car division, Aridge, unveiled its latest prototype: the A868, a sleek tilt-rotor aircraft designed to carry ...

Remember when robots were just science-fiction fantasies or clunky machines bolted to factory floors? That world is vanishing before our eyes. While you’ve been focused on generative AI and digital ...

The history of robots -- Robots in fiction -- The androids -- Domestic robots -- Robots in industry -- Robots as explorers -- Security robots -- Robots and medicine -- Playful robots -- Robots in the ...

THE term robot was first used in a Czech play in 1921, but it would be several decades before the first machine came into widespread use. THE term robot was first used in a Czech play in 1921, but it ...