So in honor of all things automaton, we've put together a comprehensive visual history of robots, androids, and cyborgs in anime, because anime is pretty cool too.

As with anything sci-fi, the definitions can be tricky: we’re including both androids (completely man-made robots) and cyborgs (beings with both mechanical and organic components) in this list.

My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented as objects of desire in fiction and how 'living dolls' have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines ...

Technically, androids and cyborgs are not the same things, although these terms are generally used interchangeably.

That rascally robot M3GAN is back in a sequel to the surprise 2022 horror hit, and now, she’s gotten an upgrade. The creative team of writers Akela Cooper and James Wan, and director Gerald ...

It depicts a female robot frolicking in what looks like a garden of overgrown shrubs and similar steam punk-inspired lizards. Though the stone-faced android is made up of metal, screws, and gears ...

(Androids are usually robots that are specifically made to look like human beings.) Because the Major has her essence or “soul” put into a robot “shell,” things get a little dicey.