PITTSBURGH — When Don Hall was working on a robotic character for his Disney animation, "Big Hero 6," he visited NASA and other robotic research centers in search of a huggable robot. Who wants to ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Out of the lab and into the wild. The Wild Robot tells the story of ROZZUM unit 7134, aka Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), an advanced humanoid robot that washes up on a remote island after ...

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, ...