From early stop-motion classics to modern AI parables, explore the animated films and series that imagined robot uprisings first.

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Disclosure Day finds the great director once again staging close encounters with interstellar visitors — and crafting a conspiracy thriller that doubles as a career retrospective Hetienne Park, Josh O ...

Are the machines already fighting back? A jaw-dropping video from China has sparked fresh fears about the rise of humanoid robots after a machine wearing a clown wig kicked a young boy in the stomach ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

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Until now, pretty much all humanoid robots have come with an eye-watering price tag. Rotaku, a startup from the San Francisco Bay Area, thinks that's a solvable engineering problem and made its first ...

The animatronic robot uses flashing LED lights, blaring sounds and jarring motions to scare wildlife away Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Japan is experiencing a rise in bear encounters, ...

Japan’s record bear crisis has turned a once-mocked animatronic wolf into essential rural tech, with demand outpacing supply. Somewhere on a golf course in rural Hokkaido, a mechanical wolf with ...