All of these androids have one thing in common – they are all female by design. So why is it that creators typically choose to give their robots feminine characteristics?

Actress Rosa Salazar plays Alita via performance capture technology. The humanoid female robot is the latest in a long line of her own kind to have graced the big screen. A fixture of science fiction, ...

Unlike traditional manufacturing robots, which carry out single tasks sequentially, the three female robots are able to switch between a number of jobs according to priority and circumstance.

In recent years, the introduction of robots is progressing not only in the manufacturing industry but also in the service industry, and there are cases where robots are in charge of serving food ...

The first female robot, arguably, was the seductress Maria in the 1927 film Metropolis — who also happens to be one of the first depictions of robots, full stop.

When we give AI a humanoid form, we typically choose the robot to have feminine characteristics. Are we playing on stereotypes?

People are more comfortable talking to female rather than male robots working in service roles in hotels, according to new research. The study, which surveyed about 170 people on hypothetical ...

Another reason for having female robots could be that women are perceived as less threatening or more friendly than men, Richardson said. And the same could be said of childlike robots.

Test installations are scheduled to start this summer at select FamilyMart locations in Tokyo, with the goal of having robots stocking shelves in 20 branches by 2022 and further expansion after that, ...