The image of a robotics engineer warning that a prototype could crush a human skull is a vivid one, but the hard evidence ...

Ethical development in robotics and artificial intelligence is often debated, and tends to centre on the vital need to avoid automating existing societal biases when it comes to ethnicity, gender, ...

Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like ...

On a chilling day in November 2025, a robot with a terrifying appearance powered up for the first time and made a startling ...

An autonomous security robot and a robo-dog will be joining the New York Police Department, authorities announced. These technologies may make people grow wary. Philosophy professor Ryan Jenkins ...

Sara Wenger. Photo provided by Sara Wenger/courtesy Virginia Tech. Is it possible to have a loving relationship with a robot? Is a machine capable of giving consent? And how do gender dynamics play ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

NEW YORK—When Dallas police detonated a “bomb robot” Thursday night to take down a sniper suspect, it was believed to be the first time a robot was used by law enforcement to kill a human being in the ...

Last week, officials in San Francisco decided to scrap a plan that would have allowed law enforcement to use robots in situations that may require “deadly force.” Specifically, according to the ...

Ahmed Amer is an associate professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Scholar of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Note: Some time ago, Amazon ...

When I went on tour for my book On Belonging, I was often asked a simple but profoundly important question: “What can I do to build belonging in my community?” The answer, I’d explain, isn’t ...