In 2026, artificial intelligence is moving from software into the physical world through humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles ...

On Jan. 25, 1921, Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.”—short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”—premiered in Prague. It was a sensation. Within two years it had been translated into 30 languages, including ...

Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock open our solving weekend. By Deb Amlen Jump to: Tricky Clues FRIDAY PUZZLE — Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock’s first published collaboration in The New York ...

Jan. 25, 2021, marks a special centennial: The 100th anniversary of a word. It’s one that already existed, but it took on a new meaning in a work of fiction. 1920: Czechoslovakian Author Karel Čapek ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM EDT Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, ...

Co-founder & CEO at InOrbit, a leading data management platform for autonomous robots, and co-founder of Robot Operations Group. Modern robots are awesome, but they’re also infamous for getting into ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...

The robot reassured the girl that it would watch over her as "one of countless stars in the universe" before its screen faded.