A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

This adolescent-looking android is the first flying humanoid robot — but the internet is creeped out by how it looks. The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) recently shared a video that updated ...

Social companion robots are no longer just science fiction. For example, after a children's reading robot became inactive, most households chose to keep it.