robots Watch this android child make some very odd and unsettling facial expressions David Pescovitz

robots Robots that can repair themselves and self-augment David Pescovitz

religion Japan's robot deity delivers Buddha's teaching David Pescovitz

androids People are willing to endanger human lives to protect robots, according to study Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Direct from the Uncanny Valley: Affetto, the freaky child android head David Pescovitz

Philip K Dick Philip K. Dick was right: we are becoming androids Jesse Walker

Japan FaceTime some eels — because they are "forgetting about people" Rusty Blazenhoff

Art and Design How to draw robots – excellent instructional book Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Power up 3 devices at once on the go with this all-in-one charger Boing Boing's Shop

surveillance This robot tuna could become a swimming surveillance system David Pescovitz

video games Cloudpunk game takes place in a pixelated cartoony Bladerunner-esque city Mark Frauenfelder

books The word "robot" originated in this 1921 Czech play David Pescovitz

Women Invent the Future: a science fiction anthology from Doteveryone Rachel Coldicutt

happy mutants How to Win Friends and Convince People to Watch Eurovision Catherynne Valente

happy mutants The BBC on Afrofuturism Cory Doctorow

science fiction Neither Huxleyed, nor Orwelled: living in the Phildickian dystopia Cory Doctorow

science fiction Talking Walkaway on the CNet book-club podcast Cory Doctorow

fake news Sexbots, Nostradamus and Donald Trump, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan