What are robots? How are they being used in the world today? How can kids make their own working robots? Where can you find parts? All this and more is covered in a great new book by GeekMom’s very ...

My experience with robotics involved some brief hands-on in college and a large amount of hands-on with the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit. It was the Mindstorms NXT kit that reignited my interest in ...

Too tired to read the little ones a bedtime story after a long day? Japanese researchers may have had the time-poor parent in mind when they developed Ninomiya-kun, a robot capable of reading aloud ...

Online book collections are becoming larger and more important each day. As more libraries are digitized, people are now able to read books on their tablets that once would have required traveling ...

We covered them all: Teaching robots, kissing robots, space robots, modeling robots and even sensitive robots. But Ninomiya-kun, a book-reading robot, is a new one. He might get along well with ...

Silvia Park, author of the May read for the New Scientist Book Club, reveals how a book that was originally intended to be ...

Madeline Ashby’s new book vN is inevitably going to be compared to Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and its movie adaptation, Blade Runner. There’s even a cheeky section where ...

Ben Hatke’s “Little Robot” follows the friendship that develops between a lost robot and a young girl who is handy with tools. An unnamed girl discovers the robot while exploring the woods near a ...

In its earliest days, when it needed a definition because there was little to point to as exemplars, science fiction was defined by the inclusion of hard science content. That is, you asked "what-if": ...