robots

Tech

The Neuroscientist Studying How Our Brains Control Our Hands

03.10.16

By Kate Lunau
Tech

Most Americans Think Robots Will Take All the Jobs, Just Not Theirs

03.10.16

By Rachel Pick
Tech

How to Turn NPR Fans Into Artificial Intelligence Cynics

03.10.16

By Louise Matsakis
Tech

Watch Google Research’s Robots Learn Hand-Eye Coordination

03.09.16

By Rachel Pick
Tech

A Bionic Fingertip Let an Amputee Feel Texture Again

03.08.16

By Emiko Jozuka
Tech

‘Mood Robots’ Express Themselves by Changing Colour Like Octopuses

03.04.16

By Jordan Pearson
Entertainment

Daft Punk DJs a Club with Ghostbusters In This Video Mashup

03.04.16

By Beckett Mufson
Experts Predict We’ll All Be Working Until We’re 75, Even After the Robots Take Over

03.04.16

By Simon Childs
Tech

Immigrant Laborers Will Be the First Victims of the Robot Takeover

03.02.16

By Ted Hesson
Tech

Why Google’s Self-Driving Car Crash Doesn’t Change Anything

03.01.16

By Nicholas Deleon
Tech

Humans Trust Robots In a Simulated Emergency—Even When the Robot Is Wrong

02.29.16

By Rachel Pick
Tech

Adventures with Conspiracy Theorists, Aliens, and Robots

02.27.16

By Kate Conger

The Latest

New Flesh

In Defense of Incest Porn

In a fairly drastic overreach, the UK government has decided to ban a range of fictional porn scripts, including step-sibling stuff and BBW face-sitting.

2 hours ago

By Emma Garland
Illustration by Reesa.

Horoscopes

Daily Horoscope: November 4, 2026

The Moon’s last full day in Virgo keeps everyone grounded enough to act on today’s big realizations without overdoing it.

5 hours ago

By Ashley Fike
Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images

Music

BlocBoy JB Questions Why Planes Don’t Have Parachutes After Deadly Florida Crash

The deadly plane crash in Florida over the weekend had rapper BlocBoy JB wondering why more planes don’t come outfitted with parachutes.

8 hours ago

By Stephen Andrew Galiher
Life

This Cinema Wants to Hypnotize You So You Can Watch Your Favorite Movie for the First Time Again

A Dutch cinema is using hypnosis to see whether moviegoers can experience their favorite films as if they’re watching for the first time.

8 hours ago

By Ashley Fike
Science

NASA’s 22-Year-Old Space Telescope Is Falling Back to Earth, and Scientists Don’t Know Where It’ll Land

NASA’s Swift Observatory is falling back to Earth after 22 years in space, and some debris could survive its fiery reentry.

8 hours ago

By Luis Prada