Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models ...

Readers on X-formerly-Twitter had to step in once one particularly gullible user claimed the cosplayers were "straight out of sci-fi" humanoid robots. "The original post, clearly says these are ...

The robots are mostly humanoid. The comedy vampire flick from the 1950s could have inspired Robby, who appeared four years later. The exception that proves the rule is the Twonky which was a TV ...

On the same note, a humanoid robot could be a good babysitter for younger kids and older adults, though I’m not sure I’d trust the AI with that. All of this sounds like a sci-fi movie scenario ...

Sometimes people feel easier confiding in a non-human machine, he suggests. But will we ever reach that sci-fi point where robots gain consciousness, freedom of choice, and perhaps rights under ...

Originally written over 60 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot is becoming truer with every day that passes. The world that he imagined is now upon us. As Radio 4 broadcasts its adaptation of ...

“Having humanoid robots is something that has been promised through science fiction for decades,” said Nick Paine, then a Ph.D. student in Sentis’s lab who is now Apptronik’s chief ...

Honestly, many of us didn’t expect it to happen so soon. We’re all used to seeing personal humanoid robots in the sci-fi flicks, but never thought it’d happen in our lifetimes. But ...

Although Hulu‘s selection of sci ... human. When Charlie’s former lover dies, he temporarily takes custody of their son, Max Kenton (Dakota Goyo), and bonds with him as their scavenged robot ...

A photographer catches a glimpse of the future as he visits some of the world’s leading robot labs Photographs ... They might not be science fiction for much longer. “Researchers and ...