Earlier this year, when a 22-year-old factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany died after being crushed against a metal plate by an assembly machine that mistook him for a car part, most news ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM EDT Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, ...

With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...

A new study from University of California, Merced, and Pennsylvania State University, reported by news site The Debrief, boils down into a single word: trust. We just trust human-shaped robots much ...