Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin.

I'd picked it because there was a mean-looking robot on the cover and, obviously, I have a weakness for robot stories. Also, because it had the word "Murderbot" right there under the picture.

By Esther Zuckerman “The only reason we are talking right now,” director Pablo Berger says over Zoom, “is because I fell in love with Robot and ... “The characters are very simple ...

G.I. Robot — and he might just be one of the best on-screen DC characters we’ve seen. In terms of his comics history, G.I. Robot has had a few iterations since his debut in Star Spangled War ...

Many movies have robot characters, but they haven’t all built them with as much personality and charm as those of the “Star Wars” universe. The newest entry in the series set in a galaxy far ...

The metal Marine was rebuilt anew as J.A.K.E.-2 in Weird War Tales #113, where the GI Robot battled the seemingly indestructible samurai robot Krakko. The armored automaton decapitated J.A.K.E.-2 ...

Here are five others that treat their robot characters with a more sympathetic hand. Writer-director Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” follows Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a low-level coder who is ...

The tagline will be introduced in spots narrated by the characters of various USA series, leading off with Rami Malek’s angsty Elliot Alderson from “Mr. Robot,” in a spot that features ...

Numerous classic mecha anime protagonists appear throughout the trailer, as is the norm in any Super Robot Wars game ... draws of the series is watching characters from different pieces of ...