Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she ...

For now, the just over five-foot-two black-haired robot code-named HRP-4C — whose predecessor had weighed 128 pounds — will mainly serve to draw and entertain crowds.

Female bots are endowed with more positive human qualities than male bots, and they are perceived as more human than male bots, compared to both animals and machines.

China.org.cn reports that the "beautiful woman in a yellow sweater" with "silky black hair and sparkling dark eyes" was one of the World Robot's star attractions this year.