What is a robot? - New Scientist
The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”.
Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations
Jul 9, 2025 · Technology Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations An AI system trained on videos of operations successfully guided a robot to carry out gall bladder …
What exactly is artificial intelligence (AI)? | New Scientist
Artificial intelligence is a potentially world-changing technology. It could help cure cancers , control autonomous cars , and augment human intelligence . Or it could lead to a robot apocalypse ...
The 26 best sci-fi short stories of all time - New Scientist
Dec 20, 2024 · Sometimes you’re in the mood for a slice of science fiction but you haven’t got the time to embark on a Red Mars or a Dune. All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a …
Ultra-tiny nanomachines are redefining how we think of robots
May 12, 2021 · BACK in the early 2000s, an awesome thing happened in the New X-Men comics. Our mutant heroes had been battling giant robots called Sentinels for years, but suddenly …
The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media
Jun 10, 2024 · Calling someone a bot on social media once meant you suspected they were actually a piece of software, but now the use of the word is shifting to become an insult to …
What is consciousness? | New Scientist
Consciousness is, for each of us, all there is: the world, the self, everything. But consciousness is also subjective and difficult to define. The closest we have to a consensus definition is that ...
The ten best sci-fi films about AI according to an expert: Wall-E, …
Dec 7, 2023 · From Wall-E to Short Circuit via I, Robot, these are the best films out there about AI, says Alan Turing Institute ethics fellow Mhairi Aitken
What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary …
Jul 31, 2024 · From Neanderthals to Australopithecus and Paranthropus, the more we’ve learned about ancient hominins, the harder it has become to define what a human is
Your autopilot mode is real - now we know how the brain does it
Oct 23, 2017 · Don't think too hard Ever realised you have driven yourself home but haven’t really been paying attention? Brain scans have revealed that when your mind wanders, it switches …