The history of AI includes many technological and conceptual breakthroughs. It has also repeatedly demonstrated that—in our relations with technology—the more things change, the more they stay ...

A fun couple of charts plotting the history of robotics innovation from a new report by the Atlantic Council, with our thoughts below (click to enlarge): The report is a concise overview of both ...

A new exhibition at the Science Museum seeks to delve further into the rise of robots, tracing a remarkable 500-year history of the human obsession to shape them in our own image.

Present-day robotics hasn’t turned out quite as the futurists intended: for better or worse, we don’t live in a world of robot butlers and Skynet. This ten-minute history of robotics does a ...

Tedmed curator Jay Walker shows Alan Murray some of the world's oldest books on inventions and explains what they can tell us about the future of robotics.

This ad for the German technology store Saturn makes as much sense as a Transformers movie: Zero. But I like how it tells the evolution of life on Earth ...

To get there, we’ll need to go to 1950, robots as functional metaphors, and a look into the existing history of robot law.

The rapid advancement of AI and robotics means that disruption is inevitable, but there's also potential for incredible digital transformations to take place.

If any of this gives you robot revolution willies, Lipson says to chill. “The image of self-reproducing robots conjures some bad sci-fi scenarios," he says.