Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.

Custom Mech Wars will have an extensive free-form robot creation system, and D3 Publisher showed how it will work at Tokyo Game Show 2023. The game’s producer Yosuke Uchida was present at D3 Publisher ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Japan sold a fully-functional robot suit that doesn't just resemble a combat mech from a video game, it was able to actually fight like one ...

Japan's giant human-piloted, humanoid Gundam-style robots are neat and everything, but … why walk if you can roll on four wheels? That's what the Archax does, transforming between robot and vehicle ...

It has been the dream of many to be able to step into a mecha robot and take control of its huge metal frame. This week a YouTube video has been published by the Autoblog channel demonstrating just ...

One of my formative experiences with anime (and television as a whole) occurred while watching “Mobile Suit Gundam 00.” It’s a show containing many themes: energy crises, religious and ethnic ...

From May 20 to June 1, War Robots will feature a themed in-game event titled MECHA Raider S.W.O.R.D., embracing a retro anime vibe and offering players exclusive content to use in battles, all while ...

If Godzilla emerges from the Pacific Ocean, Japan will probably be the only nation prepared for the attack. Sakakibara Machinery Works Co., a Japanese robotics company, has just revealed a new, giant, ...