Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be ...

On May 29 we'll discuss Wilson's book, "Hole in the Sky" and his life as an author, robotics engineer, and Cherokee citizen.

China is openly testing armed quadruped robots that look like science fiction but are being developed for very real ...

Long before engineers build the future, someone has to imagine it; that work often starts in fiction. Stories give us the ...

Gugusse and the Automaton, a lost 1897 Georges Méliès film, has finally been rediscovered, and leaves the blueprint for ...

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. One study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable. In science fiction, robots can be neurotic. Think "Star ...

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 race to create AI-powered humanoid robots continues to accelerate as major tech and consumer companies eye investments and partnerships that create business uses that could scale. Manufacturing, ...

From Black Mirror to Her to Cyberpunk 2077, science fiction reveals that our real threat isn’t killer robots—it’s the corporate systems quietly rewriting what it means to be human. Consider the ...

The killer robots are coming after you. While this is a common plot theme in science fiction, it isn’t just fiction. Robots have killed before and will kill again. Three things have gotten me thinking ...