Yet COSMO’s eight‑month sprint from sketch to screen hints at how quickly robotics is learning to merge performance with practicality.

Students from MIT have developed a retrofuturistic kitchen robot that uses AI to look at the ingredients available and makes ...

Kid Cosmo’s head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman hero of the film “The Electric State” (on Netflix March 14), Cosmo has a bright yellow globe of a head the size and ...

Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt in The Electric State. The final scene of the movie shows Cosmo — the cartoon-based robot whose body Christopher’s mind inhabited — being taken to the dump.

Michelle is looking for her missing brother, and is accompanied by a cartoonish "Cosmo" robot. "This bot knows where to find my brother," Michelle says in the preview.

Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt in The Electric State. The final scene of the movie shows Cosmo — the cartoon-based robot whose body Christopher’s mind inhabited — being taken to the dump.