From humanoid robots at Tokyo airports to mecha-scale machines like ARCHAX, engineers are increasingly drawing on anime aesthetics and storytelling to guide real-world robotics design. These projects ...

Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. Twins ...

For a couple of years now, as AI’s uncanny capabilities have exploded, people on both sides of the debate (proponents versus detractors) have been waiting for humanoid robot dexterity to evolve, in ...