The Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is the premiere mecha anime brand, with the property introducing several iconic giant robots over the years. These include the RX-78-2, the Zaku II, the Wing Gundam ...

Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.

In the eternal, now obscure struggle between fans of “Super Robots” and fans of “Real Robots,” Hardcore Mecha firmly lands on the side of the Real Robots. You might be confused as to what struggle I’m ...

Described as “the world’s first humanoid-inspired robot designed for practical manufacturing applications,” the Sherpa Mecha ...

A ti Motors, an Indian company in AI and autonomous robotics, has announced the launch of its latest robotic system, the Sherpa Mecha humanoid. Unlike conventional humanoid robots that aim to ...

Giant robots in anime, particularly the mecha genre, tend to be iconic for many reasons. Whether it's a transformation sequence like Voltron/Golion being formed from many different individual robotic ...

Innovate Labs hosted the Mecha Moves event on Monday, Oct. 13, allowing students to program a robot with a choregraphed dance of their own design.

One of my formative experiences with anime (and television as a whole) occurred while watching “Mobile Suit Gundam 00.” It’s a show containing many themes: energy crises, religious and ethnic ...

Mecha shows like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Mobile Suit Gundam" have helped popularize the present robot games. Fighting your opponents with your laser or gun-equipped robot is a common scenario ...

Hold fire on those Christmas lists. Japanese artist Kogoro Kurata has unveiled a 13 ft (4 meter) tall, 9900 lb (4500 kg) prototype mecha robot called Kuratas, which comes complete with "weapon systems ...

Super Robot Wars Y is an awesome and joyous tribute to the last fifty years of giant robot anime, and its gameplay is solid, ...

Imagine a typical young child: impulsive, vindictive, cruel and prone to lashing out during screeching tantrums, yet also harmless due to its tiny stature. Now imagine that same little monster, only ...