What to give your robot mother on Mother’s Day?
What to give your robot mother on Mother’s Day?Jung_E, the 2023 scifi movie, suggests freedom. Or a nifty wheel-leg mechanism.
Nine scifi books from Science Robotics that show how AI and robots really work
Curious about robotics but don't want to read a textbook? See the scifi robot books that the journal Science Robotics read in 2023
Would Life Be Better As A Robot? Transhumanism in the Global South.
The transhumanism sci-fi stories in the Global South anthology Africa Risen asks: Would life be better as a robot?
5 Robot Sci-Fi Books for Last Minute Gifts That Have Real Science
ICYMI, here are five robot scifi books that make great gifts (to others or for yourself!) and have been featured in Science Robotics
Sci-fi imagines how good brain-machine interfaces will amplify bad choices
Machine Man illustrates real challenges in prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces while delightfully subverting all the scifi tropes
Gendering Robots
We cannot escape gendering robots. Sci-fi novel Autonomous deftly illustrates findings from two decades of human-robot interaction research.
The novel, Player Piano, started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation
Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano started playing the familiar, but discordant, tune on automation that still reverberates today