Looking for a Christmas Robot Slasher Movie?
Tired of Elf and Polar Express? Feeling Grinch-y? Maybe it’s time for Christmas Bloody Christmas- a slasher robot horror movie.
Machine learning, robots, and abuse of power
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is an all-too-realistic take on machine learning, leading to the ultimate domestic noir/psychological thriller.
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.
M3GAN: Could a robot really learn to keep a child happy and safe to the point of murder?
Could a robot really learn to keep a child happy and safe to the point of murder like in M3GAN? The answer in Science Robotics is: well, ac
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
Asimov at 102: That We Art Mindful of His Three Laws
Asimov’s birthday provides an opportunity to examine his robots that did not follow the Three Laws and what that means for real robots.
What makes robots scary?
Halloween is approaching and it’s time to ponder: What’s scarier than a weaponized robot dog? Here is a discussion of six scary things...
A creepy child robot tells Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson “Robots do not lie.” Hmmm...Trust it?
A creepy child robot Tells Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson “Robots do not lie" in Robot Overlords (2014). Hmmm...Trust it?
Would You Trust An Intelligent Robot?
Would you trust an intelligent robot? Providence delivers a science fiction primer on why assured autonomy and explainable AI are critical.
We view autonomous cars just like the ones in science fiction, and that could be a problem
We view autonomous cars just like the ones in science fiction, and that could be a problem. Read the article on Autonomous Cars in...