The movie will be a partnership between Warner Bros. and J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot. Emily the Strange will be written by Pamela Ribon, whose credits include Smurfs: The Lost ...

Robots have been a staple of sci-fi movies from the very beginning. From the black-and-white silent era to the digital age, ...

Movies often portray robots as the harbingers of something bad, whether they’re evil and want to take over the world ...

It is also the rare film featuring artificial intelligence that chooses to take the side of its android character, Sophie Thatcher’s robot companion Iris. Movies have been warning audiences of ...

AI had appeared in Hollywood movies before, often in the form of robots. But the fear of a computer becoming self-aware, and making decisions that were bad for humans, was a new and terrifying one.

Abrams is also associated with likely robot fest the next Star Wars movie. We'll bend the rules for this bad robot.