Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the author of "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots." He has been writing about Japanese culture and technology for a decade. E-mail Tim.

Japan's giant human-piloted, humanoid Gundam-style robots are neat and everything, but … why walk if you can roll on four wheels? That's what the Archax does, transforming between robot and vehicle ...

Fresh from its defeat in women’s World Cup soccer, Japan wants to take on the U.S. once again—in giant robot combat. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that ...

One mecha anime designer was an unsung hero of the industry, having been influenced by Gundam before working on both Macross ...

Did they agree upon a common framework in an effort to level the playing field? If not, it would be a lot less interesting, I mean if Japan's Kurata is only equipped with the original BB guns while ...

Remixing the genre that Gundam built, Macross is still a unique, eclectic Real Robot anime franchise that influenced ...