Britain's greatest living scientist is convinced cyborgs will rule the planet by the end of this century. James Lovelock is predicting a world where artificial intelligence takes control because they ...

Anime is no stranger to fascinating cybernetically enhanced individuals, and these 5 may just be the most famous in the ...

Humanity is currently privileged to have choices. We can watch every sci-fi movie and TV series ever made and decide which character we'd like our future selves to play when we become robots. It's a ...

Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great potentials, but also give rise to major ...

As the growing global population continues to increase the burden on the Earth’s natural resources, some historians and scientists think humans should prepare to colonize space. The problem is, we may ...

For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet's only intelligent, self-aware species. But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own ...

The allure of the cyborg is so widely-accepted that it’s become a cliche in science fiction, but people rarely ask why. Doesn’t it seem a little strange that humans are so powerfully attracted to ...

Michael Bareev-Rudy never expected to have his finger implanted with a magnet. But in November 2015, the 18-year-old decided to embed a 3 mm x 1 mm magnet in his index finger at an event held in ...

There is an existential unease lying at the root of the Internet of Things — a sense that we may emerge not less than human, certainly, but other than human. So, if we’re going to be cyborgs, argues ...

Cyborgs. Despite a number of humans exhibiting traits of being such "cybernetic organisms", it is the many realms of fiction within which the majority reside. Modern videogames in particular have ...