In Real Steel, bot boxer Atom learns to spar by mimicking ... "People give them a task, and they figure out how to do it," he says. "For a boxing robot, you'd need some level of autonomy—a ...

In the role of 11-year-old, newly motherless Max, he is the saving grace of “Real Steel,” helping not only to bring out the humanity in Atom — Max just knows the bot has the circuitry of a ...