In the new animated film, "Arco," a time-traveling boy gets trapped in the year 2075 and must evade captors, robots and wildfires. NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer and director Ugo Bienvenu.

The Tory leader has previously claimed she grew up in a middle class family but 'became working class' after securing a job ...

What to do with a pile of 16 leaky, rusty dumpsters? The City of Norman Sanitation Dept had an idea for something creative, something big. That’s how ‘Haz-Matt’ came to be. Officials there had a ...

This striking humanoid robot is the R1 from Robbyant, a company owned by Chinese tech giant Ant Group. The allure of humanoid robots is their versatility – you can imagine them doing any job that a ...

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...

Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive ...

Edible robots could be incredibly useful for delivering medicine, but there’s one small problem. Batteries and actuators, the things necessary to power robots, are very inedible. But a team of ...

Videos of humanoid robots dancing, doing cartwheels, putting clothes in a washing machine, and serving drinks are all over social media. And tech CEOs are telling us to prepare for the forthcoming ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in ...

Delivery robots have been appearing more frequently of late on some of Chicago’s sidewalks in Lakeview and elsewhere, bringing hungry folks their tacos, chicken tenders or smashburgers as they trundle ...