In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering robot- but the robot's mechanical hands grip puppet strings attached directly ...

While The Far Side features many inventions by its resident scientist, such as Professor Schwartzman's famous Canine Decoder, the ones centering on robots are some of Larson's best. A staple of ...

The new animated film «The Wild Robot», whose character, the fox Fink, is voiced by Pedro Pascal, has started Rotten Tomatoes to unanimous critical acclaim. The animated film tells the story of a ...

Hasbro Studios‘ upcoming animated series “Transformers: Robots in Disguise” has a new home: Cartoon Network. The series had originally been set to debut on Discovery Family, formerly The Hub, in ...

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Some animated characters, it turns out, walk so goofily they defy the laws of physics. That poses a big challenge for Disney (DIS) researchers who are building character robots that could mimic the ...

A graduate student in the famed MIT Media Lab has created a robot that uses circular OLED displays as eyes, enabling new ways to research human-robot social behavior. The new bot, called TOFU due to ...

In one of Seinfeld’s last episodes, Elaine and Jerry sit in their favorite diner. Elaine pulls out a copy of The New Yorker, points to a cartoon and says, “I don’t get this.” “Me neither,” Jerry says ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Some robots are cuter than others—but Disney may have just ...

It’s not surprising that people fear the idea of military robots that end up carrying and using weapons, but they even distrust the concept of medical robots. Instead of focusing on functions and ...

The production company behind ‘Robot Chicken’ and ‘BoJack Horseman’ steps out of profane stop-motion animated TV — and into profane stop-motion animated features.