An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

The surrogate-populated world is messed up . . . but so pretty! Avatar (Dec. 18) Concept: Researchers trying to colonize a moon called Pandora discover that, oops, they can't breathe the air up there.

"Surrogates" is a movie about human robots that appears to have been made by human robots. Just as the dystopian world the movie portrays is arid and specious, the movie itself is a mechanical sci ...