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 ...

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 ...

Set a robot loose in a kitchen or backyard and safety concerns emerge—especially if it is handling a sharp knife, boiling water, or using power tools around kids, pets, and bystanders. While slick ...

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, ...

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 ...

For many people, the word robot still conjures up images of an all-knowing, all-capable, all-metal machine shaped approximately like a human being. The image, of course, comes largely from the ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT have created a robot capable of constructing furniture and other large objects from reusable building blocks based solely on spoken commands. This innovative technology has the ...