Hackaday

Robot: You Keep Using That Word But It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

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, ...
WUWM

A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word 'robot'

Updated September 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM CDT 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, ...
Forbes

The Other F Word: How Robot Developers Can Do Better By Embracing Failure

Co-founder & CEO at InOrbit, a leading data management platform for autonomous robots, and co-founder of Robot Operations Group. Modern robots are awesome, but they’re also infamous for getting into ...
The New York Times

‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word.

The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a host of difficult questions. A robot prototype being developed by Yuhang Hu, a doctoral student in the ...