How will robots help or hinder us in the future? Maybe fiction has the answers… Robots are going to take over the world one day, right? We can’t know for sure, but luckily there’s plenty of fiction ...

“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human. By Jennifer Szalai When ...

Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation. To the best of my knowledge, I am not a robot. And yet, like other humans who spend too much time on the ...

This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...

Ádám Miklósi and Judit Abdai have compiled a groundbreaking book on how the study of animal behavior is shaping the future of social robots In a groundbreaking exploration of the synergy between ...