New books by William Alexander, Claire North and qntm examine new technologies and unexplored worlds with verve.

The author of the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, on how she ...

Jules Verne’s 1863 book "Paris in the Twentieth Century," set in Paris in 1960, correctly predicted cars, fax machines, and ...

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models made by or backed by the likes of Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI are ...

It wasn’t really until the late 19th century that fiction begin to engage with scientific possibility. The French novelist ...

Are you worried that AI-powered robots are going to steal our jobs and maybe kill us all? You aren’t alone. But it is time to play devil’s advocate with yourself and consider whether the opposite ...

Humanoid robots, once confined to science fiction, are transitioning into viable commercial entities due to advances in ...