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

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These science fiction masterpieces predicted aspects of the future with eerie uncanniness and left a lasting impression.

Still, the Cold War themes give the movie a cartoonish quality, in which the bad Russian robot jockey Alexander (Paul Koslo) just insults people and cheats constantly, meanwhile the “good guy” hero ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

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 crew’s encounters with a terrifying hive mind race, the Borg, were among the best. That’s why “almost anyone would ...

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A humanoid robot from a Chinese tech company has set a world record for walking over 100km without assistance.

There are quite a few tech companies trying to make humanoid robots that can take over daily tasks. However, this Russian AI ...