
The best sci-fi books that describe how robots really work
Five scifi (and literary fiction) books that describe how robots (and people interacting with robots) really work while telling a great stor

Robot Mothers: Give your Mom a hug, be she human or robot!
Starting in 1940 with the pulp Captain Future, science fiction robots have served as mother surrogates to humans, either for good or ill.

Bittersweet lessons about human-robot interaction and ethics- The Silver Metal Lover
The Silver Metal Lover, the 1981 cult-favorite scifi book by Tanith Lee, is surprisingly realistic about human-robot interaction and ethics.

Robots and Romance Slidshow: the Science and SciFi of Emotions
Are robot emotions in scifi realistic? Well, yes, the idea that robots would have emotions is plausible.

Robots and Romance: Science Fiction and Science
Valentine’s Day is approaching… Do want to sneak in a robot movie to watch on date night? Do you wonder about whether robots and love is...

FLASH Review: the Last Writer Or Why the Robot Revolution Failed (novella, J.F. Lawton)
An amusing 45 minutes on audiobook, where a robot assassin sent to kill the last human writer muses over why the robot rebellions keep...

Artificial Condition (2018): Follow up to Martha Well’s Hugo Awards Winner!
Robots: service ‘bots, drones, humanoids Recommendation: Get it! The good news is that there is no sophomore slump, volume 2 of The...

Peace on Earth (1987): Using telerobotics to check in on a robot uprising on the Moon with Christop
Robots: humanoids, teleoperated reconfigurable robots Recommendation: Read this classic novel and expand your horizons about robots and...

Lock In and Head On: Disabled FBI agent Chris Shane may be at home telecommuting with his robot, but
What it gets right about robots: telecommuting, embodied mediation Recommendation: It’s Scalzi. And robots. Do I need to say more? Stop...

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018): Han Solo and Robot L3-37 'meet cute' on a suffragette city p
Robots: humanoids, squarish service bots, those floating creepy military droids What it gets right about robotics: not much beyond...

The Wrong Unit (2016): What if Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang was a robot assigned to “help” peop
Robots: Humanoid. What it gets right about robots: Nothing. Recommendation: The Wrong Unit is the right book for quick fun, who cares...

The Prey of Gods (2017): In theory, robots can hold grudges, and in this book, boy do they!
Robots: service ‘bots, human-robot interaction, emotions, software architecture Recommendation: Take a break from reading dark, ponderous...

The Mad Scientist's Daughter (2013): A vacuous girl falls in love with a bland robot who just ne
Robots: Humanoids Recommendation: Save your time and money and get a copy of Marge Piercy’s 1991 award winning novel He, She and It which...

The Themis Files: Aliens leave behind a giant piloted mecha exoskeleton, probably because it is so b
Robots: Exoskeletons or mecha What it gets right about robotics: nothing. But along with Pacific Rim, it is a teachable moment about...

February 2018: Astromech robots in Star Wars
What R2D2 and BB-8, the lovable astromechs from the Star Wars movies, can tell us about real robots. Read the full article here... ...