In a world where technology promises to liberate and elevate humanity, the gross sexualisation of female robots exposes a darker, more sinister truth: misogyny is not just alive and well, it's ...

From Apple's iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan's first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female ...

The truth is, women have a tricky history with being secretaries, so of course making default female voices for secretary-type helping devices is problematic. At the same time, if male and female ...

The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and are so perfectly smooth in speech they almost outdo people.