On Jan. 25, 1921, Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.”—short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”—premiered in Prague. It was a sensation. Within two years it had been translated into 30 languages, including ...

Language is ever-evolving, with new words springing up from a variety of places. Some are borrowed from other languages ("karaoke"), others are two words blended together ("doomscrolling"), and some ...

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, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

In the Season 2 finale of Mr. Robot, Tyrell Wellick (Martin Wallström) tells our troubled protagonist Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) about a William Carlos Williams poem called "The Red Wheelbarrow," ...

Also see an exclusive first look at Brown's upcoming picture book 'The Wild Robot on the Island' The Wild Robot has a long future ahead. Fresh off the release of the hit movie adaptation and shortly ...