Classic rock, which is a genre that began to coagulate in the 1960s and 1970s, is now some 50 or 60 years old. But even back then, the artists writing the songs that would become classic rock hits ...

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A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

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When you buy online, a robot could be helping to fill your order. A behind-the-scenes look at an Amazon fulfillment center ...

Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

Editor’s note: “Musk Is All In on Robots: Why You Should Be, Too” was previously published in July 2025 with the title, “The Robot Elon Musk Thinks Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone.” It has since been ...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Love, Death + Robots volume 4.Netflix's (mostly) animated anthology series Love, Death + Robots volume 4 featured 10 different stories that covered a wide ...

Debate over the song of the summer rages on, but if there were a contest for a word of the summer, one front-runner would surely be the onomatopoeic clanker. In recent weeks, clanker has risen to ...

You could have a robot wink at you on your next run or walk. Recently, the Arlington County released a small fleet of robots—complete with eyes that can wink or display hearts—into the wild as part of ...