The Portland Winter Light Festival is a city-wide event that illuminates what is often the darkest month of the year with art installations that can truly be called “lit.” The Willamette Light Brigade ...

The Natural History Museum delves into all sorts of extreme and extremely fascinating realms, but one of the most striking elements of the elements found within the Exposition Park institution is how ...

The robots are coming! A Japanese theme park built this life size robot from “Gundam” to celebrate the anime’s 40th anniversary. The 59-foot-tall bot weighs 25 tons and, while it only moves in slow ...

In Western nations, Transformers probably served as many people's introduction to mecha; however, that beloved franchise is ...

COLUMBIA — What does Hootie & the Blowfish have in common with a giant robot? Soon both will have a spot in Columbia's Five Points area. With city approval to place it near the fountain at the end of ...

A rainforest community will work together to help restore its 40-foot robot friend in Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s 2026 Rose Parade float. Titled, “Jungle Jumpstart, the float ...

On a day marked by anticipation and excitement, Russia’s first humanoid robot made its stage debut on November 12, 2025. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. While Giant Robo is technically a mecha anime based upon a mecha ...

In the immortal words of Weird Al Yankovic, “You dig giant robots, I dig giant robots, we dig giant robots, chicks dig giant robots.” With apologies to said chicks for unnecessary specificity, there’s ...