A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

Science fiction tends to project the present into the future, and so its predictions are often suspect. That’s why we’ll see people send faxes in future worlds imagined years ago, instead of beaming ...

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Building a robot is hard. Teaching a robot is even harder. But teaching a robot to do your teaching for you might just be within the realm of possibility. If you're building a robot to perform a ...

Developed by MicroFactory, the general-purpose tabletop robot can be trained with the help of AI or human demonstration. The system is designed to automate repetitive manual work. The robotic system ...

Boston Dynamics, the famed manufacturer of the robots that will one day ascend past human intelligence and install themselves as our metallic overlords, released the latest version of its bipedal ...

Meet Q8bot, a palm-sized robot that resembles a miniaturized version of the famous Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped. Designed ...

”Short Circuit” is an obvious ”WarGames” ripoff in which a robot steals every scene from wooden performances by the always-too-eager-to-p lease Steve Guttenberg and the usually likable Ally Sheedy.