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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have robots that can walk and run but still a long way to go before the technology matches the cybernetic skills in the new science fiction film Alita: Battle Angel.

Get ready for the Cybathlon. The first Olympics for augmented humans will take place in Switzerland in 2016 and feature some of the top assistive gear around.