From Metropolis to Avengers: Age of Ultron, robots are such a staple of movie-going that it's easy to forget they haven't always been around. The idea of automated machines doing work for us has ...

Robots in movies go back a century. Seriously, as one of the first iconic epics “Metropolis” hinges on a robot, and that movie came out in 1927. In the intervening years, there have been ...