100 years before 'Terminator,' this forgotten film invented the sci-fi robot

Gugusse and the Automaton, a lost 1897 Georges Méliès film, has finally been rediscovered, and leaves the blueprint for ...
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People like extroverted robots — but they relate to the neurotic ones

While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — they haven't really been a focus of research into how ...