Humanoid robots spent 2025 straddling a strange line between breakthrough and blooper reel. They poured lattes, posed in ...

For centuries, hospitality in Japan has meant kimono-clad innkeepers attentive to the last detail. Now, androids from the company that licenses Hello Kitty will staff a new hotel. A theme park near ...

Simulated women and the Pygmalion myth -- Mechanical Galateas : female automatons and dolls -- Mannequins, masks, monsters, and dolls : film and art in the 1920s and 1930s -- Simulated women in ...

This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...

Robots are designed with a specific purpose. They are complex machines, performing tasks that make life easier. A computer with arms and legs that can do (almost) everything a human can has been the ...