In 1775, a Swiss watchmaker named Pierre Jaquet-Droz visited King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, in Versailles, to show off his latest creation: a “living doll” called the Musician. She was ...
This year’s Arthur C. Clarke award for the year’s best science fiction novel was awarded last month to Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot. Over the course of the novel, Annie, a sentient sex robot programmed to ...