“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

The Wild Robot has toppled many Box Office records since its debut in theaters, becoming an instant hit across the world and cementing itself as one of the year's best films. After recently entering ...

Director Chris Sanders, production designer Raymond Zibach, and VFX supervisor Jeff Budsberg tell IndieWire about hand-painting their sci-fi adventure to get an impressionistic 2D look.

Pablo Berger channels Chaplin, Tati, and Earth, Wind & Fire in his acclaimed animated debut about the friendship between a dog and a robot in New York's East Village. Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” ...

Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

Unitree, Agibot, and Sharpa introduced humanoid robots at CES 2026. While one model is focused on entertainment, another features an advanced robotic hand.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked ...