In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...
From Metropolis to Avengers: Age of Ultron, robots are such a staple of movie-going that it's easy to forget they haven't always been around. The idea of automated machines doing work for us has ...
It’s tough to talk about sci-fi androids without starting here. Robby the Robot (from “Forbidden Planet,” 1956) and Gort (from “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” 1951) kind of set the standard for all ...
“Companion” is a darkly comedic sci-fi horror thriller that doubles, as TheWrap’s review notes, as a heightened commentary on one-sided relationships. It is also the rare film featuring artificial ...
Movies like The Terminator and TV shows like Black Mirror have taught us that we should be afraid of machines and, especially, the rise of artificial intelligence. However, there are quite a few ...
In the opening scenes of “The Wild Robot,” a chirpy metal android with a state-of-the-art processing unit wanders around a forest asking confused animals if it can help them, offering discount codes ...
We’re on the cusp of February, and the romantic horror movies are cutting to the front of the line. However, very few of them are going the man-seeking-android route that Companion has decided to take ...