“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

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 ...

There’s a broad range of thought on robot faces. It’s a surprisingly difficult aspect to get right for some very good reasons. For one thing, we’re hardwired to recognize and intuit faces, so small ...

Named Elf V1, the advanced bionic humanoid robot can perceive the world, communicate, learn, and interact intelligently with ...

“The Wild Robot” director Chris Sanders was feeling a little lost himself. In 2020, he ventured into live-action filmmaking with “The Call of the Wild,” an ambitious, imperfect adaptation of Jack ...

"What did Jun do to the android?" Unifrance has debuted the official French trailer with English subtitles for the acclaimed, incredible animated sci-fi film Mars Express. I've been raving about this ...

This gorgeous toon is at its best when dealing with nature and nurture, even if minor stumbles keep it from soaring to Iron Giant heights. Why you can trust GamesRadar+ Our experts review games, ...

Nature and technology collide and then come together in the narrative of the new animated film “The Wild Robot.” That feels particularly fitting considering the visually dazzling and heartfelt movie ...

It’s the face of the future. A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of developing more human-like ...

Hugging Face Inc. has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than ...