Motoko Kusanagi, better known as “the Major,” is the cyborg hero of the famous manga, anime, and soon-to-be live-action film, Ghost in the Shell. The title itself refers to the idea that the Major was ...

Robots are cool. Androids are cool. Cyborgs are cool. In fact, pretty much anything part human, part machine — or just straight up machine — is cool with us. So in honor of all things automaton, we've ...

Much will be made this week of the poor box-office showing of “RoboCop,” the $130 million remake about a human-machine hybrid that sputtered to a weekend opening gross of about $21.5 million. On ...

Though it draws its name from an extraterrestrial species, the "Alien" franchise is often just as interested in synthetic life as it is in the biological world. This goes all the way back to the very ...

A team taps muscle and collagen from the sea slug to create a robot that could be used in environmental surveillance and search missions in places such as the ocean. Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

We usually think of cyborgs as part human, part machine, but roboticists don't limit themselves that way. Researchers have developed a hybrid robot built with body parts from a novel source: sea slugs ...

Call Me Kenneth is a carpenter robot who became the first robot to break the laws of robotics, this confirmed Judge Dredd's fears that robots would evetually break their programming and become ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

Check those calendars cynics, Cyborg #4 crashes into your local comic book store this Tuesday, October 17th. I bet you're just shaking with anticipation. Pack some snacks, it's gonna be an ...