Pablo Berger channels Chaplin, Tati, and Earth, Wind & Fire in his acclaimed animated debut about the friendship between a dog and a robot in New York's East Village. Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Motion capture can look great or cheap, but these 10 characters represent the best examples of how the technology can bring ...

Robot Dreams and Flow are both silent movies, with a lot of emphasis on the characters’ physicality and how they express themselves without words. Survival adventure Flow is very grounded in how real ...

Disney Research Hub has different priorities to other robot developers; its robots need to move effectively and efficiently – but also with a ton of style and personality. This super-cute biped, based ...

It’s not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race — Guillermo del Toro’s 2022 retelling of “Pinocchio” was the last to make the short list, and Pixar’s 2020 film ...

Over the past two decades, humanoid robots have greatly improved their ability to perform functions like grasping objects and using computer vision to detect things since Honda’s release of the ASIMO ...

The movie The Wild Robot features a robot with a quality that, in a different context, would put the audience on alert: an operating system that can convincingly mimic falling in love. The story ...

It's not completely unusual to see animated contenders in the Academy Awards sound race–Guillermo del Toro's 2022 retelling ...

Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have discovered. Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is ...