What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) moves from painting portraits to designing homes? That question is no longer theoretical. At the Utzon Center in Denmark, Ai-Da Robot, the world's first ...

A piece of techno-cinematic history has emerged as the US Library of Congress releases the restored video of the oldest film ...

“Looking Back to Move Forward / A Re:collection of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon,” which is also available virtually, traces the history of robotics from early snake bots to some of the first autonomous ...

Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

Lost in Space. Doctor Who. Star Trek. Even The Jetsons — TV and movies in the 20th century and beyond were obsessed with the idea of robots, both as threats, like the Daleks of Doctor Who, and as ...

Exactly one hundred years ago, a play premiered that introduced a significant new word to the world – robot. When the first production of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. opened on January 25, 1921, at the ...

Atlas Shrugged may be the name of Ayn Rand’s veritable doorstop of a novel, but no-one is shrugging indifferently when it comes to Boston Dynamic’s amazing Atlas robot. For the past five years, Atlas ...