As Radio 4 broadcasts its adaptation of these short stories, the series' scriptwriter, Richard Kurti, takes a look at some of ...

Science fiction promised us humanoids. Do we even want them?

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

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 ...

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 ...

Omar Naim, the Lebanese-American director who made his debut with 2004’s demented necro-voyeurism film The Final Cut, is working on another science fiction movie, according to Production Weekly. The ...

According to the process of robot behavior, we categorize Embodied AI into three modules: embodied perception, embodied decision-making, and embodied execution. While recent advancements in artificial ...

The history of robots -- Robots in fiction -- The androids -- Domestic robots -- Robots in industry -- Robots as explorers -- Security robots -- Robots and medicine ...

While this sounds like something from a science fiction movie, Musk believes that in the long term such a future could become possible.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...