From Metropolis to Avengers: Age of Ultron, robots are such a staple of movie-going that it's easy to forget they haven't always been around. The idea of automated machines doing work for us has existed for as long as civilization, but it wasn't until 1920 ...

Featuring the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Catherine O’Hara and Pedro Pascal, director Chris Sanders’ family-friendly animation tells the story of a robot who befriends and nurtures a menagerie of animals. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology ...

We live in an age where a giant robot movie doesn’t seem all that special. Thanks to over a decade of Transformers movies and the excellent Pacific Rim, the novelty of getting a giant robot movie that takes itself seriously is lost on modern audiences.

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’s a reason for that,” he said on ...

Still, the Cold War themes give the movie a cartoonish quality, in which the bad Russian robot jockey Alexander (Paul Koslo) just insults people and cheats constantly, meanwhile the “good guy” hero robot jockey, Achilles (genre legend Gary Graham), seems to be the only person who cares about innocent bystanders.