Earlier this year, when a 22-year-old factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany died after being crushed against a metal plate by an assembly machine that mistook him for a car part, most news ...

With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...

Oregon-based robotics firm Agility has announced it will drop the word ‘Robotics’ from its ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum’s Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum points out ...

Cinema history has always been linked to technology, but a recent find pushes back ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...