“Saying ‘robot’ is equivalent to talking about a certain species as if it’s just an animal.” Ultimately, Albert added, the word “robot” may end up becoming little more than a rhetorical flourish for ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at MIT have created a robot capable of constructing furniture and other large objects from reusable building blocks ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum’s Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum points out ...