Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus has crossed a line that once belonged firmly to science fiction, moving from carefully staged ...

New York — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its ...

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

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 ...

In science fiction, robots can be neurotic. Think "Star Wars" and C-3PO. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - A NEW HOPE") ANTHONY DANIELS: (As C-3PO) What are we going to do? We'll be sent to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...