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Sex, Robots, and Horror: Get Excited for ‘Companion’

HI, ROBOT

It’s not a bad movie by any means, but the ideas about technology in director Drew Hancock’s thriller don’t hold up.

Emma Stefansky | Published Jan 31, 2025

‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Is the Best New Musical on Broadway

LOVE MATCH

Beautiful songs, stunning design, and brilliant performances by Darren Criss and Helen J Shen: “Maybe Happy Ending” makes the love story of two robots Broadway’s hottest ticket.

Tim Teeman | Published Nov 12, 2024

Elon Musk Faces Copycat Accusation Over Latest Tesla Venture

LOOK FAMILIAR?

Tesla’s cybercabs are slated for production in 2027, while the company’s robot will hit the market sooner by the end of the year.

Lily Mae Lazarus | Published Oct 14, 2024

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How TV’s Coolest AI Robots Came Alive

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Sunny rolls with a 13- person entourage, plus four support staff. The team behind the remarkably functioning AI robot on Apple TV+’s series tell Obsessed how they pulled it off.

Emily Maskell | Published Aug 14, 2024

Can an AI Robot Cure Loneliness? On This New Show It Might.

NEW AGE

The new Apple TV+ series “Sunny,” starring Rashida Jones, is an ambitious sci-fi mystery that tackles the AI and robot debate with surprising humor.

Nick Schager | Published Jul 10, 2024

Big, Bad, Gun-Slinging Robots—and the Future of War

ROBOT V. ROBOT

In a future matchup of superpowers’ robotic capabilities, the United States might not have an edge.

Shannon Vavra | Published Jun 03, 2024

Musk Plays Up ‘Sentient Humanoid’ Robots as Tesla Flounders

RAZZLE DAZZLE

Perhaps investors will ignore falling profits and revenues in favor of a sexy—though not yet proven—innovation.

Noah Kirsch | Published Apr 23, 2024

These ‘Robot Wranglers’ Are Keeping Androids Safe on the Job

COG IN THE MACHINE

While robots are increasingly used in manufacturing, full automation seems a ways away, as long as the bots need a little human help to get the job done.

Edith Olmsted | Published Jan 30, 2024

AI Could Learn a Thing or Two From Rat Brains

BE THE RAT

Modern artificial neural networks suffer from what is known as the “problem of catastrophic forgetting”: when you teach them new things, they tend to forget old things.

Max Bennett | Published Nov 10, 2023

Food Delivery Robot Bomb Threat at OSU Blamed on Prank

‘AVOID ALL ROBOTS’

At 4:40 p.m., the school gave the “all clear” but said an inspection of its food delivery robots was ongoing.

Alex Nguyen | Published Oct 24, 2023

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