The big metal robot looked like a dog. It moved like a dog. Five-year-old Sabine then decided she would pet it like a dog. It was not, however, warm and furry like a dog. It was really a robot ...

“Barney & Friends” was a mainstay of daytime television in the early 1990s, making a star out of the title character: a purple anthropomorphic ... I worked as a robot character called The ...

But playing a nonhuman character requires a different — or additional — calculation. Where is a robot’s center of gravity? As Claire, a Helperbot 5 with a defective battery (and heavy dose ...

Brooklynites are gawking at one of the borough’s newest residents: an 18-foot-tall metal sculpture of the 1980s comic-book character “Rappin’ Max Robot.” The mammoth piece of public art ...