At the root of it all is the likeness to the female robot, often called “Maria,” in Fritz Lang’s masterwork of futurism, Metropolis. Maria has inspired countless cultural references ...

Movie poster for Fritz Lang’s 1926 film Metropolis. (Fine Art Images / Heritage ... the destruction of society by the division between head and hands. The hero, transfixed again, asks ...

Robots in movies go back a century. Seriously, as one of the first iconic epics “Metropolis” hinges on a robot, and that movie came out in 1927. In the intervening years, there have been ...

On screen, robots have entertained for almost a century with mechanical creations featured in a number of early black-and-white films. In 1927, director Fritz Lang unleashed “Metropolis” onto ...