Illustrators have made a living creating book covers. Now, artificial intelligence is learning to make art. Michael Whelan has made a career painting aliens, dragons, robots and other fantastical ...

Peter Brown, an author and illustrator, was drawing pictures for a children’s storybook when he sketched a robot standing alone in a tall pine tree. The sketch, he realized, didn’t work for his ...

If you grew up playing with LOGO on an old 8-bit computer, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a drawbot. It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around to draw on paper. [Tim] decided to build ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

THERE’S A MAGICAL quality to Ben Hatke’s books, and an ambient warmth, as if even playing in space stokes a nostalgic glow. This especially makes sense when Hatke, an author and illustrator based in ...

Fresh off the release of the hit movie adaptation and shortly before the 2025 Oscars, where the flick is nominated for three awards, Peter Brown, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling middle ...

Artists everywhere, take heed: there's a robot pining for your jobs, and it's pretty good at what it does. The mDrawBot is a 4-in-1 robot that is able to hold a pen or pencil and draw images onto ...

In new picture books, children and robots join forces. Heavy construction machinery — bulldozers, diggers, tractors and the like — seem to have cornered the market when it comes to mechanical objects ...