We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot? A laundry robot? A kickboxing robot? A space robot?

This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Transformers have long been some of the most popular robots in fiction this side of Cybertron, ...