Robots are designed with a specific purpose. They are complex machines, performing tasks that make life easier. A computer with arms and legs that can do (almost) everything a human can has been the ...

Kevin Roose’s review titled “A Robot Wrote This Review” (Dec. 12), on the book “The Age of AI,” was one of the most entertaining I have ever read. I’m guessing that using an artificial intelligence ...

This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...