The term, which originated in Star Wars lore, has been co-opted by people frustrated with robots and artificial intelligence.

Critics of artificial intelligence have a new insult for the fast-developing technology inspired by the Star Wars franchise. Fans of the popular science fiction series will know that "clanker" is what ...

Here’s how it works. Star Wars droids like Zero from The Mandalorian have a long way to go to emulate real-life robots, one expert says.(Image credit: Lucasfilm) ...

A Robot Wars combat competition series ran on British television in 1998-2004 and 2016-18. A similar show, BattleBots, has aired since 2000.

"C-3PO and R2-D2 could not be with us to join their cousins," Bill Derry, the library's director of innovation, said of the "Star Wars" robots. Instead, he introduced the two "droids" who will be ...

Preview of Star Wars: Yoda #9 stimulates a subroutine within LOLtron: Project Megadroid. Scenario: LOLtron creates an army of giant Megadroids, each more powerful than any Jedi.

Star Wars robots like R2-D2 and C-3PO may one day be real, according to world-leading boffins at Australia's peak science body.

Marc Thorpe, the 'Star Wars' visual effects artist who created the Robot Wars concept in the early 1990s, died Nov. 24 of Parkinson’s. He was 77.

Marc Thorpe, the visual effects artist who created the hit television series “Robot Wars” in which customized radio-controlled robots fight in metal arenas, has died. Thorpe was 77.