Rebellion has launched Atomfall's second piece of DLC, The Red Strain, which lets you control a robot companion and makes the game gorier.

Mecha shows like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Mobile Suit Gundam" have helped popularize the present robot games. Fighting your opponents with your laser or gun-equipped robot is a common scenario ...

AI is on everyone’s mind right now, though this was something that gamers saw coming long ago—through the robot-inspired games they play. Lately, such games have become more enjoyable than ever.

And indeed, if the idea is good, it needn't be an external robot. There's no reason why a companion AI couldn't be built right into the game console operating system, ready to hang out and chat during ...

T his year marked the first-ever international sporting event to feature humanoid robots as athletes. These robots, with some help from the humans behind their creation, competed against each other in ...