Gender stereotyping or normalising verbal abuse or harassment falls short of the current standards for prohibited AI under the European Union's AI Act. Extreme cases, such as voice assistant ...

White couple sues Florida fertility clinic after giving birth to baby who appeared "racially non-Caucasian," genetic testing allegedly confirms embryo mix-up.

Woodstock Willie will not be denied his time to shine early Monday morning, despite calls from an animal rights group to ...

A new war on women? Artificial intelligence is having an outsize impact on female-centric professions, a new study suggests. A report from the nonpartisan think tank Brookings Institution and the ...

On a rare look inside one of Europe’s most disciplined yacht factories, MIN discovers how Cranchi's assembly-line thinking, ...

Hyundai is reportedly testing its Atlas humanoid robots at US plants to gather data and assess real-world performance.

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our read for February – and the needle swings wildly from positive to negative ...

Physical AI marks a transition from robots as programmed tools to robots as adaptable collaborators. That transition will ...

Abstract: Mobile robot inspection is a representative application of the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT), where robots serve as mobile IoT sensing terminals for equipment monitoring and data ...

Not being a sex robot myself, I had to take an imaginative leap to write from the perspective of Annie in my novel Annie Bot. Because the book is written in the third person, not the first, Annie ...