Five years ago, an East Nashville woman started a parade for "robots." Now hundreds turn out each year on Electric Avenue.

Designed at MIT's Media Lab, Boxie is an adorable cardboard robot that films you with its eyes. Alexander Reben, of the Responsive Environments group, explains that Boxie's lack of complexity is its ...

Through two tiny slits, the world becomes unintelligible. I stumble forward, unable to move my foil-wrapped arms above my head. I am allegedly holding a cardboard gun, but I can’t seem to get my hand ...