Forget about robots that look like they're straight out of science fiction. ‘Unobtrusive physical AI,’ as the technology is ...

New books by William Alexander, Claire North and qntm examine new technologies and unexplored worlds with verve.

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Humanoid robots, once confined to science fiction, are transitioning into viable commercial entities due to advances in ...

Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models made by or backed by the likes of Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI are ...

Jules Verne’s 1863 book "Paris in the Twentieth Century," set in Paris in 1960, correctly predicted cars, fax machines, and ...

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

Scientists achieve major robotics milestone as robot learns 1,000 different physical tasks in single day, potentially ...

It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...