Chinese scientists have reportedly unveiled plans for the world’s first humanoid robot capable of carrying a pregnancy to ...

From Apple's iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan's first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female ...

Feminist science-fiction writer Amy Thomson, author of robot-comes-of-age novel Virtual Girl, suggests that the fembot myth is attractive to men because it deals with â€a woman you create and ...

Female robot voices are helpful and competent assistants, like a chirpy secretary a futuristic Don Draper might employ. Movie trailers, for example, tend to be narrated by men.

Science fiction might rank as the defining genre of modern films, but too often it is used simply for an escapist space adventure or paranoid dystopian fantasy. A sci-fi movie that says something ...