From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton--better known today as the robot--has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of ...

Justin Flynn is an editor and writer from Ireland. He became a gamer at the age of eight when a mix-up at his local toy store landed him a copy of Kingdom Hearts. Since then, he has earned a Bachelor ...

If you're looking for a highly replayable JRPG, here are 8 NieR: Automata moments that completely change its meaning once you ...

Machine Cores are valuable items that you can get from killing enemies in NieR: Automata. While the smaller, regular enemies won’t drop them, you can get them from the large, towering machines or the ...

The Apologetic Machines are probably the biggest mystery in NieR: Automata at the moment. You can find these strange, kowtowing machines in the Flooded City, the Forest Zone, and the Desert Zone. In ...

Big, boisterous cannons. Pivoting mechanical joints. Sockets that can pop in and out advanced weaponry, oversized guns, and titanium katanas. These are the blood and guts of NieR: Automata’s ...

Concepts of robotics have been floating around the human consciousness since 3500 BCE. Centuries before the term “robot” (literally, “forced labor” in Czech) was coined, philosophers, engineers, and ...

A total of five figures are available in this collection. They consist of 2B, 9S, Pod 042, Pod 153, and a Machine Lifeform. People will have to spend 500 yen to pull a random figure capsule from the ...

As the debate intensifies over whether artificial intelligence (AI) should be recognized as an inventor, the heuristic we identified in February between autonomy and automaton can fruitfully be ...