Robots are designed with a specific purpose. They are complex machines, performing tasks that make life easier. A computer with arms and legs that can do (almost) everything a human can has been the ...

Robots have been a staple of sci-fi movies from the very beginning. From the black-and-white silent era to the digital age, automatons have been walking, rolling, and floating across the silver screen ...

Still, the Cold War themes give the movie a cartoonish quality, in which the bad Russian robot jockey Alexander (Paul Koslo) ...