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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Talks of The Wild Robot 2 being in development have begun swirling following the massive success of the first film. According to author Peter Brown, he’s cautiously optimistic that one is coming.

My 7-year-old son and I interviewed Peter Brown together. As big fans of "The Wild Robot," we both had very different ...

There are two very different births in "The Wild Robot," the latest animated film from Universal Pictures. One is the birth of Rozzum 7134, a robot known as Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), who first boots up on ...

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to leave ...

Out of all the great animated movies released in 2024, DreamWorks' The Wild Robot has come out to be one of the most beloved.

The Wild Robot has a long future ahead. 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 ...

Let’s say you want to build a swarm of inch-long flying robots. (Maybe you’ve got a DARPA grant. Maybe it’s an art project—-imagine if those moved.) Flying is complicated and requires a lot of ...