When he was a boy in Hong Kong, Kenny Poon loved to watch Japanese cartoons, and remembers being transfixed by a scene of a ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

Artificial life forms have come a long way from when moviegoers first encountered Robby the Robot in “Forbidden Planet” (1959). Sentient robots, androids and other artificial life forms have been a ...

B y 1956, films were far from new. The industry had grown to include sound, color, and more innovation than its pioneers could ever have imagined. It was a respected medium with plenty of stories to ...