When we first covered the emerging field of lovotics, the science of human-robot love, we had no idea that it would turn out to be one of the most popular stories ever published on ExtremeTech.

Sixteen year-old voice actress Ibuki Kido, who voices Asami Himuro on the popular anime Aikatsu!, brings Cocorobo-chan to life as a kid-sister type character in vacuum bot form.

They’re the ones created by color-coded ninja teams who snap their armor together to form one, giant robot — you know, for fighting a malevolent galactic nematode.

We haven’t seen any games from Konami’s robot girls series Busou Shinki since the PSP days, but that might be changing in the near future, as the company announced that a new project is in the ...