Mid-20th Century: As computers and early robotics emerged, stories started exploring more complex AI and mechanical designs.

Humanoid robots have been central characters in many movies from the very beginning of the film industry, and have regularly featured prominently throughout this time. And they have never – or at ...

The premise of Philip K Dick’s famous novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, first published in March 1968, is that empathy defines our humanness. The novel and the movie directly inspired by it ...

How advanced are today’s robots? What can they do now? And what’s likely in the coming years? Conor McGinn, CEO at Akara Robotics and professor of Robotics at Trinity College Dublin, joins Adrian on ...

Flashy humanoid robots that have awed attendees at Web Summit in Lisbon this week are still far from revolutionising physical ...

Yesterday, an 8-inch toy robot stuck to a pillar near Coors Field triggered hours of havoc downtown, culminating in the Denver bomb squad detonating the innocuous figurine in a hullabaloo of wondrous ...

We follow Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, who’s just a regular guy, a computer programmer by day and a hacker by night. He gets ...

Isaac Asimov, a pioneer in science fiction, crafted stories that forever changed the genre. Among his most enduring contributions are The Three Laws of Robotics, which established a foundation for how ...