An American company says it has built the first consumer-ready humanoid robot that can do all sorts of home chores, such as folding laundry, organising shelves, and tidying spaces. 1X Home Robots ...

Companies building humanoid robots are all the rage these days. Elon Musk is promising to sell enough motion-capture-trained Optimus bots to make up the vast majority of Tesla's value, while a company ...

It was like a real-life Rock ’em Sock ’em. The rise of the machines seems closer than we might like to think. Freaky footage captured the moment that a humanoid robot seemingly snapped and lashed out ...

We're getting a new cyberpunk television series based on the critically acclaimed science fiction novel Luminous, by Silvia Park.

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In a speculative corner of the ETF world, artificial intelligence is fast becoming yesterday’s trade. Instead, the next disruptive bet on humanity’s fate is moving into the realm of science fiction: ...

The sci-fi genre has long been one of the most thought-provoking and consistently popular in modern fiction. There are many staples of the genre that have come to define sci-fi for audiences, ...

This frames the plot of “The Evitable Conflict,” a short story from “I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov’s seminal collection published in 1950. In the background of the nuclear age, technology was quietly ...

Forget about robots that look like they're straight out of science fiction. ‘Unobtrusive physical AI,’ as the technology is called, could wind up being more pervasive in the real world. Two competing ...