Would you risk humanity's survival on a robot built in two years?

Project Hail Mary reflects real-world technical readiness assessment processes for robotics.

What to give your robot mother on Mother's Day.

Jung_E, the 2023 science-fiction movie from South Korea, suggests that a novel leg-wheel hybrid for robot locomotion might be appreciated.

Robot pack mules remain science fiction for now.

The plot of the 2014 science-fiction movie Young Ones revolves around a robot pack mule based on the real-world BigDog.

A fictional history of robotics features forgotten real-world robots.

The science-fiction movie The Creator uses six real-world robots from the 1950s and 1960s to show progress in AI.

Early science fiction got microbots surprisingly right.

Since 1931, science fiction has speculated on how microbots might work and how they will change our lives.

What will robots think of us?

Two recent science fiction novels humorously illustrate the importance of correct robot mental models.

Would life be better as a robot?

A collection of short stories from Africa and the diaspora explore transhumanism in the face of ecological collapse.

Is "suicide by droid" satire or a real possibility?

Zed: A Novel humorously illustrates the need for, and challenges facing, the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act.

Assistive robots would regret a robot uprising.

Sea of Rust projects a complex emotional relationship between assistive robots and humans.

Surgical robots in movies may not be science fiction.

RoboDoc, a 2009 comedy, offers a surprisingly accurate assessment of robot surgery.

Designing a robot to recover a sunken submarine is hard.

Three Miles Down is a fictionalized version of the expedition to recover a Soviet submarine, 50 years before OceanGate Titan.

Harnessing AI and robotics in humanitarian assistance and disaster response.

AI and robotics can facilitate humanitarian assistance and disaster response, but partnerships with practitioners are crucial.

Mars robots meet bounded rationality.

A new sci-fi novel, The Strange, is set in a counterfactual Mars where an alien mineral increases the intelligence of robots.

Sci-fi imagines how good brain-machine interfaces will amplify bad choices.

Machine Man and The Andromeda Evolution explore personal and societal ramifications of brain-machine interfaces.

We cannot escape gendering robots.

The novel Autonomous embodies two decades of human-robot interaction studies on the effects of robot gender.

M3GAN: The real horror is the lack of ethics in robotics.

The popular robot horror movie M3GAN illustrates legal and ethical responsibilities that are often overlooked.

The novel Player Piano started the familiar discordant tune on the rise of automation.

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, foresaw advances in real-world robotics and how they affect society.

A retrospective of Isaac Asimov at 102 and his Three Laws.

Not even Asimov expected that all robots would be, or should be, subject to his Three Laws.

Bot self-destruction memes are no laughing matter in science fiction.

Social media waggishly labels bot failure as self-destruction, but sci-fi anticipated the mistreatment of real-world robots.

Do robots reflect their creators?

IG-11 in "The Mandalorian" poses the question of whether roboticists are the Bounty Hunters' Guild or Kuiil.