If your UberEats delivery driver has ignored the box checked “leave order at door” one too many times, there’s a new way to eliminate the unwelcome face-to-face interaction that comes with your ...

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human traits to an animal or inanimate object, is the time-honored way cartoonists and movie animators made points about life — and made their appeal — to readers ...

The latest animated feature worth catching isn’t screening in a movie theater — it’s on the streaming service, Netflix. The action-packed sci-fi film Next Gen premiered on Netflix September 7 and can ...

There are a lot of things robots are good at. Automating manufacturing processes and helping humans accomplish repetitive tasks are just two examples. There are some jobs, though, robots struggle to ...

The hospitals or doctors offices we see on TV or in the movies rarely depict what those settings are actually like, and more than that, they usually don’t accurately display what it’s like to be a ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. We’ve collected all the first, second, and third place winning entries ...

Last year’s surprise Best Animated Feature nominee, Robot Dreams, is finally available on streaming. So now you too have a chance to have your heart shattered into a million tiny pieces by the world’s ...