In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...

Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

Robot Dreams and Flow are both silent movies, with a lot of emphasis on the characters’ physicality and how they express themselves without words. Survival adventure Flow is very grounded in how real ...

Alan Tudyk was one of the major stars of the 2004 summer blockbuster “I, Robot” — but he’s not so sure many people know that. “A lot of people didn’t know I did Sonny the robot on ‘I, Robot’ and there ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...