At its launch, Mohammad, wearing a traditional white thawb and red keffiyeh. Saudi Arabia's first male robot, Android Muhammad, is under scrutiny after a video showed it allegedly harassing a female ...

A Saudi humanoid robot was captured groping a female reporter on camera — and the company behind it is defending its behavior. In an interview with the British tabloid Metro, QSS, the AI firm behind ...

When we give AI a humanoid form, we typically choose the robot to have feminine characteristics. Are we playing on stereotypes? There is a popular idea that artificial intelligence (AI) is out to get ...

Saudi Arabia became the first country to give a robot citizenship this week, though critics immediately pounced on Riyadh for granting the android Sophia rights while flesh-and-blood women in the ...

The female robot seemed to not be subject to strict restrictions on Saudi women. — -- A robot woman in Saudi Arabia was granted citizenship this week, sparking a backlash that said the robot ...

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 ...