When we talk about the wizardry of theme parks, we're often talking about animatronics, that super-cool STEM-tastic world of turning cogs and computers into almost-living people, animals, and straight ...

Leave it to spooky szn specialist Spirit Halloween to come up with the scariest animatronics that are almost too real. (Seriously, I got chills just looking at them.) On July 20, Spirit launched five ...

Damon Breland, 43, stands aside in the doorway of Smitty’s Super Service Station, a former country convenience store that has been in his family for generations, and pulls open a heavy blue curtain.

SWANSEA — To one Swansea boy, the animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese are a staple of this iconic franchise. That’s why Logan Carreiro has taken to Facebook and an online petition. His efforts have caught ...

Simple robot parts make up the internals. When it comes to sci-fi, it’s hard to go past Star Wars, and many submissions to our contest land in that exact universe. [Kevin Harrington]’s entry is one ...