Chinese scientists have reportedly unveiled plans for the world’s first humanoid robot capable of carrying a pregnancy to term. Led by Dr. Zhang Qifeng of Kaiwa Technology in Guangzhou, the project is ...

Female robots, or gynoids, bring their feminine AI touch to these sci-fi movies.

Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...

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 ...

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