Laying the Foundation for Sci Fi Androids Ancient Myths of Artificial Beings. Since ancient times, people have wondered what it would be like to make l ...

Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes. Dozens of companies are building robots that look like ...

SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...

To confront this growing labor crisis, Boris Sofman—a Carnegie Mellon robotics Ph.D. and early Waymo executive—cofounded Bedrock Robotics in 2024. Instead of building autonomous machines from scratch, ...

In a speculative corner of the ETF world, artificial intelligence is fast becoming yesterday’s trade. Instead, the next disruptive bet on humanity’s fate is moving into the realm of science fiction: ...

While the world grapples with the rights of regular humans versus artificial intelligence companies that want to mine both their data and their creative output, sci-fi is contending with rather ...

Want to build scenes from 'Interstellar', 'Men in Black', and 'Arrival'? These LEGO sci-fi sets could become reality—they ...

Instead, the next disruptive bet on humanity’s fate is moving into the realm of science fiction: Humanoid robots, UFOs and quantum computing. To a niche band of opportunistic fund managers, these aren ...