Even with our reassurances about safety, people readily imagined hazards: humanoids could trip, stumble, or tip over; they might glitch, run out of battery, or malfunction. The idea of a robot ...

Warning: this post discusses suicide and disordered eating. 1.Let's start with an early example of AI going haywire. Back in March 2016, Microsoft introduced Tay, an AI chatbot on Twitter that was ...

For less than the price of a fully decked-out MacBook Pro, you can buy Unitree's latest humanoid robot called the R1. You only have to shell out $5,900 for a robot that weighs around 55 lbs, stands ...

"That is so cool! But what do you do with it?" Those are the two main things that just about everyone says upon seeing my Unitree Go2 Pro robot for the first time. The latter is a hard question to ...

The word “robot” was not used in literature until 1920, when Czech playwright Karel Capek wrote the play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) that debuted a year later and made it to New York City in ...

Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...