When we give AI a humanoid form, we typically choose the robot to have feminine characteristics. Are we playing on stereotypes? There is a popular idea that artificial intelligence (AI) is out to get ...

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, ...

A promotional stall for an upcoming video game at the Tokyo Games Show left attendees and netizens scratching their heads as they tried to work out if a troupe of human-like androids were real people ...

The second phase of Gaganyaan mission will involve the launch of Vyommitra It is a female spacefaring humanoid robot Vyommitra, a name derived from the Sanskrit words "Vyoma" (meaning "Space") and ...

An eerily life-like robot has been turning heads at the World Robot Exhibition in Beijing this week. Named Geminoid F, the robot has amassed a legion of fans, with some even describing her as 'the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...