Feeling socially disconnected may lead us to lower our threshold for determining that another being is animate or alive, according to new research. "This increased sensitivity to animacy suggests that ...

At first glance, a neuroscientist and a business school might seem an odd fit. But in fact economists have been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. The problem was that while the ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1686, Theme issue: Understanding self and other: from origins to disorders (19 January 2016), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) Although robots are ...

Experiments reveal a dynamic process that leads to the uncanny valley, with implications for both the design of robots and for understanding how we perceive one another as humans. Androids, or robots ...

In an age of artificial intelligence, there is an increasing number of tools and gadgets that speak to us, watch us, help us find our keys, and tell us about everything from the news to the weather.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. Robots, Androids and artificial intelligence are being used ...