Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strip of film from George Méliès' 1897 short "Gugusse and the Automaton," which is thought to be the first film to feature what ...

Cinema history has always been linked to technology, but a recent find pushes back the timeline for robots on screen. For years, historians saw the 1927 film Metropolis or the 1920 Czech play R.U.R.

Watch: World's first robot movie found after more than a century By David Szondy March 08, 2026 Gugusse et l'Automate is thought to be the very first movie to feature a robot Library of Congress View ...

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The legacy of the robot in film is a long and storied one, whether we’re considering such synthetic cinematic luminaries as Andy Kaufman’s character Val in 1981 comedy Heartbeeps, or Bernadette Peters ...