A Brief History of Awesome Robots From futuristic cities to a 1980s Chinese restaurant, a peek back at the real and fictional robot icons of the last century.

When the robot found the shipwreck, the humans controlling it must have been elated. The SS Central America, a paddle wheel steamboat, had gone down in a hurricane in 1857, loaded with gold from ...

Robot law already has an interesting history, but its future is likely to be even more so. We asked a group of futurists, technology experts, and artists to predict the future of robotics.

The idea of using killer robots in war has been a sci-fi staple for decades -- but it's also been a reality for just as long ...

A new exhibition at the Science Museum seeks to delve further into the rise of robots, tracing a remarkable 500-year history of the human obsession to shape them in our own image.

In celebration of National Robotics Week (April 9-16), a public education initiative of the Congressional Robotics Caucus, the National Museum of American History accepted donations today from ...

Living Machines: A quick history of robots (Part I) Derided as abominations or celebrated as ingenious feats of human engineering, robots have been around longer than you think.

Despina Kakoudaki joined us today to take our questions about the history of robots in our stories, including one on just how far back the earliest instance of robots appearing in a written story ...

Man's Best Friend: A Brief History of Robots Robots can now assist in surgery, navigate Mars, and even vacuum your living room.

Robot is a relative newcomer to the English language. It was the brainchild of the Czech playwright, novelist and journalist Karel Čapek, who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R., or Rossum ...