From the silent era to the present, robots have fascinated filmmakers, who have portrayed the mechanical beings in every conceivable way — as allies, antagonists, victims, predators, quipsters, ...

Motoko Kusanagi, better known as “the Major,” is the cyborg hero of the famous manga, anime, and soon-to-be live-action film, Ghost in the Shell. The title itself refers to the idea that the Major was ...

Artificial life forms have come a long way from when moviegoers first encountered Robby the Robot in “Forbidden Planet” (1959). Sentient robots, androids and other artificial life forms have been a ...

10 minutes ago, I was cautiously optimistic that one day we’d live and work side-by-side with robots in perfect harmony. Then Boston Dynamics posted a video of its ATLAS humanoid robot performing ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have managed to create a kind of cyborg, by integrating the ear of a locust into a robot. The robot was then able to respond to noises that the biological sensor ...

Robots are cool. Androids are cool. Cyborgs are cool. In fact, pretty much anything part human, part machine — or just straight up machine — is cool with us. So in honor of all things automaton, we've ...