Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend. And while robot pets weren’t the biggest stars of CES 2026, they’ve become more ...
In a world where technology promises to liberate and elevate humanity, the gross sexualisation of female robots exposes a darker, more sinister truth: misogyny is not just alive and well, it's ...
In Companion, Sophie Thatcher plays a woman who’s nervous as she shows up to spend a weekend at a luxurious lake house with her boyfriend and his friends. That’s enough to set anyone on edge — and a ...
Sophie Thatcher can cry a single tear out of either eye on command. No, it’s not a party trick, but it blew away writer-director Drew Hancock. During a taut scene in the third act of his sci-fi ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Warner Bros. There’s a feeling that I get sometimes while watching a new movie that basically boils down to: This should have come out a couple of ...
It’s not too hard to imagine a future where men opt to buy companion robots that they can control and manipulate into being their own personal sex dolls. In fact, writer and director Drew Hancock ...
When the Companion teaser dropped in October, the ambiguous nature of Sophie Thatcher’s Iris blurred the lines between human and android. The new trailer answers things immediately — Iris is a robot.