To create the huge, boxing robots that do battle in the new Hugh Jackman movie "Real Steel," director Shawn Levy pushed past using only CG to build huge, articulated puppets to play the in-ring ...

Who wouldn't want a robot fighting league? Megabots, Inc is hoping to bring that dream to reality with their $1.8 million Kickstarter campaign.

Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman and a cast of boxing bots, opens today. We asked the experts what the movie gets right about robots, and how close we are to building machines that can fight like ...

We were already excited for Real Steel, Hugh Jackman’s movie about robot boxers pounding each other to scrap — but now we’ve read the script, and we’re twice as stoked. This is the robo ...

Much like in the Hugh Jackman-starring Real Steel, competitors shadowbox in an exo-suit that translates every uppercut and right hook to their mechanical avatars.

Real Steel rocked us with its story of a boy bonding with a robot. And a big part of why the movie is such a fun breath of fresh air is its awesome robot designs.

Here’s how it happened: A Hollywood screenwriter had a thought. “What if there was a movie with a robot doing the robot dance?” And now the world has Real Steel, a movie not about robots ...

Reliance Games will launch Real Steel: World Robot Boxing for iOS, Android and Kindle on Oct. 17 — the second entry in its series of games based on the film Reel Steel — studio executive vice ...

And the whole father-and-son story, so crucial to Real Steel, is completely absent from the original material as well. In summary: To this geek's mind, yes, it's good science fiction.

The best robot movies, actually, do both, marrying the spectacular with the profound. It’s not an easy task, but Real Steel, Hugh Jackman’s robot-boxing movie that opens in theaters Oct. 7 ...