Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our ...

In 1942, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the “Three Laws of Robotics” to the world through his short story ‘Runaround’. These safety principles stipulate that robots must not harm ...

Long before the Will Smith movie, a screenplay adaptation of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot was worked on by legendary sci-fi writer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are you worried that AI-powered robots are going to steal our jobs and maybe kill us all? You aren’t alone. But it is time to play devil’s advocate with yourself and consider whether the opposite ...

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

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 ...

Despite all the dystopian science fiction literature and films in which machines have taken over the world and dehumanized society, there are companies that ...