In a world where technology promises to liberate and elevate humanity, the gross sexualisation of female robots exposes a darker, more sinister truth: misogyny is not just alive and well, it's ...

Dorr heads up a research team at San Francisco-based RethinkX, a think-tank that analyzes disruptive technology. The team examined how technology has influenced society through human history, The ...

From robotization to autonomous robots, how did we get here? Is it a societal need, or an opportunism associated with increasingly sophisticated innovations? What are the effects on society, our lives ...

As if air travel isn’t stressful enough as it is, passengers arriving via Terminal B at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport should now prepare themselves to be ogled by a robot. As part of a new ...

Who would you get to observe differences in how men, women and children interact? A robot in a fur-lined hat, of course. Experiments using a robotic head, called Furhat, aimed to uncover inequalities ...

In November, Sophia struck a blow for robots everwhere when she was granted Saudia Arabian citizenship—the first time any country recognized a robot in such a way. Now, Sophia, a social robot, is ...