MOVIE robot Johnny 5 is alive — and living in a granny annex. Fan Ryan Howard, 33, has spent £20,000 recreating the android from cult 1986 film Short Circuit ...

A replica of the robot from the Short Circuit films has gone trick or treating for Halloween - dressed as a ghost. Johnny 5 brought smiles to children's faces as it rolled from door to door in ...

Ryan Howard, 34, has spent six years making a fully functioning replica of Johnny 5 (Picture: SWNS) A cult film fan has spent six years building a fully functioning robot from the film Short Circuit ...

A film fanatic who has built a fully-functioning replica of the robot from the 1986 film Short Circuit said fans get emotional when they see his creation. Ryan Howard, 34, from Nottinghamshire, ...

The robot star of Eighties movie Short Circuit captured the hearts of fans by announcing, after being struck by lightning: ‘Number 5 is alive.’ Now he’s come to life again as a replica built by Open ...

A match made in Radio Shack: ‘Robot Dreams’ combines American optimism with mounting European angst ...

WSJ's Joanna Stern and Geoffrey A. Fowler meet Pepper, a robot that understands and expresses humanlike emotion. TOKYO—Japan’s humanoid robots are struggling to find homes.

SoftBank Group Corp’s robotics unit says it stopped manufacturing a humanlike robot called Pepper in August last year due to a lack of demand for new units. Pepper is a child-sized humanoid robot that ...