The "Transformers" franchise spans across cartoons, comics, video games, and a large portion of Michael Bay's filmography. We ...

Mecha anime like Patlabor and Neon Genesis Evangelion stand out by using giant robots as tools for deeper ideas rather than ...

Pinterest Predicts — the annual report on the top trends to watch for the upcoming year — is here, and says that in 2026, ...

Long before the movies, the Transformers franchise began over four decades as a collaboration between Japanese toymakers and ...

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots still need plenty of help from a human teleoperator who’s hidden from view. During a flashy event on a Hollywood movie studio lot in October 2024, for instance, an army ...

In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

The Elgin City Council has cleared the way for Wayside Cross Ministries to transform a four-story office building into a transitional housing facility. The 42,000-square-foot building at 890 N. State ...

Can everyone dial it down a little with the enthusiasm for humanoid robots that can’t even do anything useful yet? You’re scaring the Chinese economy. On Thursday, three Bloomberg reporters based in ...

The robot walked over 2.5 full marathons in China. One robot just walked its way into history. Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a new world record for the longest distance walked by a humanoid ...

Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99. Meyer’s creations arrived in the postwar ...

Lite-Brite toys created by Burt Meyers part of the museum’s collection sitting in an arrangement at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y. The Strong National Museum of Play via AP A ...