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.

Custom Mech Wars will have an extensive free-form robot creation system, and D3 Publisher showed how it will work at Tokyo Game Show 2023. The game’s producer Yosuke Uchida was present at D3 Publisher ...

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 ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got to live out every 6-year-old's fantasy when he got behind the controls of a giant "mech" robot. The Verge reports that Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Japan sold a fully-functional robot suit that doesn't just resemble a combat mech from a video game, it was able to actually fight like one ...

Marvel’s Fear Itself became “Everyone gets a hammer,” the current X of Swords event started out as “Everyone gets a sword,” and now Marvel is upping the game with Avengers Mech Strike a new series ...

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 ...

Robot vacuums that can climb stairs are now officially a thing if IFA 2025 is any indication. At the Berlin tech show, Eufy announced the MarsWalker, a dang stair-climbing mech suit that your robot ...