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.

Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in ...

Japan's giant human-piloted, humanoid Gundam-style robots are neat and everything, but … why walk if you can roll on four wheels? That's what the Archax does, transforming between robot and vehicle ...

Pacman and Ms. Pacman finds and wakes up an interesting giant Biped Robot Pacman, who attacks them, but Mecha Dog comes and ...

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 ...

Underneath the surface of fearsome monsters we can see that Godzilla is closely linked to the fears of atomic radiation and mecha robots emerged from the extremely rapid industrialization of Japan ...

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 ...

Rhenn is a Manila-based content writer with a love for all things geek and pop culture, and science and technology. He graduated BA Journalism degree as a Cum Laude, and has since then pursued making ...

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 ...

There’s an argument that Evangelion isn’t really a mecha series, as the machines the characters pilot are not technically fully mechanical. The show is also more concerned with how piloting the Evas ...

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 ...