A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...

Part 1, we reported on the Enhanced Games, an athletic competition that will be staged next May in Las Vegas for a willing ...

Reinforcement learning—the fancy AI industry term for trial and error—was used to train it, including looking at videos of ...

Users can form emotional attachments to devices. This has implications for design and human-computer interaction.

Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?

Sam Altman’s comment that the internet could be “dead” echoes a once-fringe theory that bots, not humans, are now shaping the ...

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a professor of computer science and leading voice in AI safety, says the technology will take over 99% ...

A new Hotels.com survey finds that more than half of hotels feel pressured to roll out flashy technology. Here’s what that means for guests.

More than half of hotels feel pressure to keep upgrading their tech, according to Hotels.com’s 2025 Hotel Room Innsights ...

Scott LaValley, CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, says robot makers should prioritize social acceptance over capabilities interview ...