Intel gives us a humorous peek at a surprisingly plausible future of robotics with its "Lunch Room" ad.

The Daily Galaxy takes up preaching the gospel of the Singularity to its fans while dodging the sketchy history and problematic future of the concept.

In order to make their cinematic universe work, the creators of The Matrix had to make their robots invulnerable. In reality, they wouldn't have won the war against humans.

China wants its citizens connected to the internet. Just not the kind of internet where their daily propaganda blitz could be questioned with the click of a mouse...

Defining and measuring intelligence is very difficult. It will be even more difficult if that intelligence is artificial.

Turns out, insects have basic forms of intelligence and the path to thinking robots may be through emulating how their tiny minds work.

A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.

In another major step for brain-machine interfaces, a stroke victim can speak using a computer with amazing accuracy.

A look at all the top stats of 2009 on the last day of the year.

Another year comes to close at Weird Things and what a year it was...

The team behind Duke Nukem Forever failed to learn the most important lesson of any creative and engineering field: at some point you have to stop designing and building the thing.

Researchers are scanning extremely thin slices of human brains to build up the most detailed map of our minds ever created. And that map may have some weird implications.

Far be it from me to offer design advice to giant killer robot builders, but that's exactly what I'm going to do.

If we want to guide out future and find our places in it, we need to take risks and dream big. Otherwise, we're doomed to decades of mediocrity.

While Singularitarians are focused on creating a friendly AI, the first real world artificial intelligence systems are likely to be as unfriendly as possible by design...