We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot? A laundry robot? A kickboxing robot? A space robot?

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 ...

How will robots help or hinder us in the future? Maybe fiction has the answers… Robots are going to take over the world one day, right? We can’t know for sure, but luckily there’s plenty of fiction ...

Robots that look and move like people are no longer only the domain of science fiction movies like Ex Machina or The Wild ...

The killer robots are coming after you. While this is a common plot theme in science fiction, it isn’t just fiction. Robots have killed before and will kill again. Three things have gotten me thinking ...