Humanoid robots are rapidly entering workplaces, healthcare settings, and public spaces, sparking both excitement ...

Ethical development in robotics and artificial intelligence is often debated, and tends to centre on the vital need to avoid automating existing societal biases when it comes to ethnicity, gender, ...

An AI-powered robot that initially insisted it had unbreakable safety protocols ended up shooting a YouTuber with a ...

Sara Wenger. Photo provided by Sara Wenger/courtesy Virginia Tech. Is it possible to have a loving relationship with a robot? Is a machine capable of giving consent? And how do gender dynamics play ...

An autonomous security robot and a robo-dog will be joining the New York Police Department, authorities announced. These technologies may make people grow wary. Philosophy professor Ryan Jenkins ...

Last week, officials in San Francisco decided to scrap a plan that would have allowed law enforcement to use robots in situations that may require “deadly force.” Specifically, according to the ...

Ahmed Amer is an associate professor of computer engineering at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Scholar of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. Note: Some time ago, Amazon ...

When I went on tour for my book On Belonging, I was often asked a simple but profoundly important question: “What can I do to build belonging in my community?” The answer, I’d explain, isn’t ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

Smart missiles, rolling robots, and flying drones currently controlled by humans, are being used on the battlefield more every day. But what happens when humans are taken out of the loop, and robots ...