The Shape of Intelligence: Why Robot Form Factors Are the Most Important Design Decision of Our Era
By Futurist Thomas Frey For most of human history, when we imagined a robot, we imagined something that looked like us. Two legs. Two arms. A head. Eyes at the top. The humanoid form — familiar, symmetrical, vaguely reassuring — dominated science fiction for a century...
The Asimov Manifesto
An ultra-modern humanoid robot stood motionless beneath the cold glow of the city skyline, its polished titanium frame reflecting streams of neon light. With unsettling precision, it raised a compact energy weapon toward an unseen target, not with anger or emotion,...
Twelve Inventions That Prove the Future Has a Sense of Humor — And Means Business
By Futurist Thomas Frey Every few years, a cluster of technologies arrives that makes you stop and ask whether the people building them are solving real problems or simply demonstrating that the problems can be solved. The twelve innovations I want to walk through...
A Geneva Convention for Robots
In 1864, nations set rules before catastrophe. Robotics needs the same—clear, enforceable lines between care and harm, defined before the consequences force it. … The world didn’t wait for weapons manufacturers to self-regulate warfare. It built a treaty....