Sometimes heroes aren’t born, they’re built. Robots have been a long-standing staple of science fiction and superhero stories, and the Marvel Universe has no shortage of mechanical characters. Some ...

We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot? A laundry robot? A kickboxing robot? A space robot?

Unlike most other robots, Tomorrow Woman had no idea of her artificial nature or her intended purpose. Tomorrow Woman was created by the mad scientists T. O. Morrow and Professor Ivo. She was designed ...