“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 ...

What is the Alter3 humanoid robot, how does it work? Alter3 is a humanoid robot that was first introduced in 2016 as a platform for exploring the concept of life in artificial systems. It has a ...

This article was taken from the April 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on ...

Here’s a question for you and answer honestly: Was your eye dry when Tom Hanks lost his volleyball buddy Wilson in the movie “Castaway?” Mine was certainly on the moist side and most of the other ...

Elon Musk and a Tesla Optimus robot.. Photos: Getty Images; Courtesy Tesla Elon Musk spoke at the Cannes Lions global creative industries conference, touching on the Optimus robot again: He wants it ...

In the 2012 film “Robot and Frank,” the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms of dementia. Concerned and guilty, his son buys him a “home robot” that can talk ...

For six middle schoolers, playing with LEGOS started out as a fun hobby. Now they're gearing up to build robots at the FIRST LEGO League World Championship in Houston, from April 16-19. FIRST LEGO ...

Rashida Jones needs a friend in her new Apple TV+ series... and she'll settle for a synthetic one. The Parks and Recreation veteran plays a lonely woman who befriends a robot in the sci-fi mystery ...

The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires ...

No matter what images we have from the Borg on Star Trek or the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica, NASA says the future of space exploration is all about human and robotic cooperation. “In space it will ...