We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...

Edible robots could be incredibly useful for delivering medicine, but there’s one small problem. Batteries and actuators, the things necessary to power robots, are very inedible. But a team of ...

Roomba once looked like the future. Its maker, iRobot, filled American homes with small but affordable robots that helped keep households clean and cats endlessly occupied. But iRobot has now filed ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Roughly 2,000 investors, entrepreneurs and others attended a Mountain View summit that showcased robots that ...

United Parcel Service Inc. will invest $120 million in 400 robots used to unload trucks, according to people familiar with the matter, revealing new details on the logistics giant’s $9 billion ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the ...

Delivery robots have been appearing more frequently of late on some of Chicago’s sidewalks in Lakeview and elsewhere, bringing hungry folks their tacos, chicken tenders or smashburgers as they trundle ...

But back to those poor little robots. Whereas the metallic bots and droids of Pixar and Star Wars fare fine with glass and polymer eyes, there’s a new generation of autonomous machines called soft ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

A quiet economic subsector is emerging around humanoid robots, and it's already experiencing a variety of cybersecurity challenges. Joseph Rooke, director of risk insights at Recorded Future's Insikt ...