The robots are on the move--leaping, scrambling, rolling, flying, climbing. They are figuring out how to get here on their own. They come to help us, protect us, amuse us--and some even do floors.

Despite the longevity of the robot concept, robotic butlers that roam our homes and relieve us from housework still seemed far from reality until very recently. Instead, the vast majority of robots ...

“Robots,” the new animated kids’ feature from 20th Century Fox, is cute, clangy, hyperactive, really shiny, completely inorganic (except for the flatulence jokes) and totally hermetic. The robots ...

Close your eyes and imagine: A patient is anesthetized, draped and on an operating table. The other humans — doctors and nurses — are gowned and masked. A metallic assistant, perhaps a distant cousin ...

The protagonist of the movie, “Robots,” Rodney, was born to a working-class family, the son of a dishwasher. He was a firm believer in the saying, “You can shine no matter what you’re made of,” ...