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 …
The 26 best sci-fi short stories of all time - New Scientist
Dec 20, 2024 · Comment Our writers pick the 26 best science fiction short stories of all time We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The …
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 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 ...
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
The hard problem of consciousness is already beginning to dissolve
Sep 1, 2021 · The subjective nature of consciousness makes it difficult even to define. The closest we have to a consensus is that there is “something it is like to be conscious”.
How the drone battles of Ukraine are shaping the future of war
Feb 18, 2025 · As the Russia-Ukraine war reaches its third anniversary, militaries around the world are watching the evolution of drone warfare and planning for future conflicts