They’ve had personalities. They are characters in ways real robots simply are not. These are the best intelligent robots from ...

Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, a somewhat traditional Alien robot. At first glance, the Synth — or android — that we meet at the start of Alien: Earth is very much like the Synth folks we’ve met before.

One of the hallmarks of the original 1979 Alien is that it turned a slasher into a science fiction film. Since then, the vast majority of the Alien franchise has kept the action out in space, in ...

At the mid-point of Alien: Earth 's first episode, the show's protagonist — an android uploaded with the consciousness of a dying child — shakily asks, "If I'm not human, what am I?" By the episode’s ...