If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

The reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" did some of its most substantial reimagining with the robotic Cylon villains. The original Cylons were boxy robots with synthesized voices created by a vocoder ...