When researchers created a robot that replicates the gait of a cartoon character for the first time, it was no big surprise that Disney was involved. Engineers at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) and ...

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 ...

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human traits to an animal or inanimate object, is the time-honored way cartoonists and movie animators made points about life — and made their appeal — to readers ...

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 ...