Hertz is an animated robot head he built in about nine months. Hanson and other robot makers believe that social robots, like Hertz, will one day serve a variety of functions: tutor, companion, even ...

Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” which gets a theatrical release from Neon at an as-yet-unannounced time this year, was one of the animated delights of 2023. The Spanish/French hand-drawn dramedy ...

Sometimes friends have a special song that means something to them and only them. For a dog and robot in the animated film "Robot Dreams," it's an Earth, Wind & Fire song - "September." (SOUNDBITE OF ...

Nature and technology collide and then come together in the narrative of the new animated film “The Wild Robot.” That feels particularly fitting considering the visually dazzling and heartfelt movie ...

It’s one of those strange but immutable truths of the movies that a song like Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” can play in roughly a thousand films before a movie about a dog and a robot comes along ...

Dog, the furry main character of the animated “Robot Dreams,” lives a solitary life in New York’s East Village during the 1980s. The neighborhood hums, hoots and hollers with life, though in this case ...

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. Twins ...

[Editor's note: This interview was originally published on November 30, 2024 in advance of our IndieWire Honors Winter 2024 ...