During a surreal publicity stunt, First Lady Melania Trump walked the White House's red carpet next to a black-and-white humanoid robot. Beyond advocating for the use of AI to teach impressionable young minds — the tech’s extensive and well-documented shortcomings be damned — the White House is making it clear that it’s putting it front and center.

Somehow Chris Sanders, the animation legend behind “Lilo & Stitch,” “How to Train Your Dragon” and “The Croods,” had never been to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. That changed earlier Tuesday, when he showed off footage from ...

A delivery robot used for Uber Eats appears unfazed after being sat on and graffitied in footage filmed on a Philadelphia street.

Chinese robotics firm UBTECH Robotics released a remarkable video this week appearing to show hundreds of its Walker S2 humanoid robots marching in unison. The company released the footage with news that it had delivered the robots to multiple partners ...

THIS is the shocking moment a dancing robot slaps a child in the face after a street performance spirals out of control. Footage shows a crowd gathered around to watch the state-of-the-art machine

Three-time Oscar-nominated director Chris Sandlers and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o previewed unfinished footage of DreamWorks Animation‘s “The Wild Robot” at CinemaCon — what Sandlers says took inspiration from Disney classics and Hayao Miyazaki ...

At a recent presentation at DreamWorks headquarters in Burbank, CA, star Lupita Nyong’o and director Chris Sanders presented exclusive footage from the upcoming Dreamworks animated feature The Wild Robot and held a discussion after. What follows is our ...

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