The term "robot" and what it represents in our imaginations owes its popularity to the art world, far more than to robotics laboratories. The golden age of robots. Writers of science fiction, ...

An eerily realistic humanoid robot — claiming to be the "world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android" — twitched to life in a viral clip, which viewers slammed as "dystopian" and "terrifying." ...

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Science fiction promised us robot butlers, but it seems they rather fancy themselves as artists instead. And who can blame them? On November 7, a painting of the mathematician Alan Turing by an AI ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an ...

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 ...

I first learned about robots while reading a science fiction story more than 50 years ago. But I first saw what they looked like in Western movies, which began screened in China after the launch ...