In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a University of California, Merced study allowed a robot ...

A new study examined how humans perceive different types of deception by robots, revealing that people accept some lies more ...

In between the two extreme visions of AI as a servant and AI as a sentient fighter-lover, resides an important and practical alternative: AI as a provocateur.

When Peter Brown was still in the midst of writing The Wild Robot, the first novel in his middle grade ... potentially working in animation but pivoted to working in children’s literature, had ...

Festival season always begets some of the year’s most exciting films, and after a much quieter 2023 Toronto International ...

Past CALF illustrator Peter Brown's chapter book "The Wild Robot" will be released as a film in Theatres on September 27th ...

The Mr Robot star recently welcomed a boy with his wife, who worked at North Miami's MOCA and is an occasional actress - but ...

Sinister, brain-controlling mushrooms are a staple in sci-fi shows and literature. While brainwashed humans doing the bidding of fungi remains fantasy, researchers have now learned how to control a ...

With its unique three-wheel lift system, the Qrevo Curv can hoist itself over door thresholds and high-pile carpets.

Henry wakes with a jolt on Halloween morning in “William,” Mason Coile’s “debut” (it’s Canadian writer Andrew Pyper’s first book under that pen name).

An extendable robot began on Tuesday a two-week mission to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of ...

In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial ...