Most people think of robots as giant killing machines, but some have simpler objectives. Instead of complex machinery and programming, this cartoon envisions a dog's idea of a robot. In this cartoon ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

Running time: 142 minutes. Rated PG (action/peril and thematic elements). In theaters. Wall-E and Iron Giant, meet Rozzum. Or, Roz for short. She is the latest nuts-and-bolts creature to capture the ...

It is thrown into the grass, crawling or spinning and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, transforming into a fish; that day, it fell from the top of a 108-meter high ...