Spies and magicians have plundered one another’s box of tricks throughout history but, as Alan White reports, these practised ...

The word automat is the Latinization of the Greek word αὐτόματον, which means acting of one’s own will. It is more often used to describe moving machines, especially those made to resemble human or ...

On the centenary of Fritz Lang’s film, Metropolis emerges as a manual for the present: between invisible cities of data, ...

AI is nowhere near even approaching anything resembling sentience. But if it were, would it be ethical to make it do accounting tasks? We examine the question of AI freedom in our final part of our AI ...

The Second Sentinel is an NPC in Hollow Knight: Silksong that is an automaton tasked with defending the Citadel. It is hidden deep into Act 2 and requires collecting several pieces of the Cogwork ...

Considering how successful Nier: Automata and its never-ending supply line of 2B merch has been, it's somewhat shocking that publisher Square Enix hasn't followed it up with another new mainline game ...