We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.