Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction. While the latest artificial intelligence (AI) craze has sparked another wave ...

We put several robot vacuums from Roborock, Eufy, Dreame, and more through a series of mess tests to see which stood out.

Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but the problem is they don’t really understand the words they use. They are primarily systems that interact with data obtained from ...

Hardware costs for humanoid robots are plummeting, but managing a fleet of these autonomous workers will severely test your ...

Robots might need to become more boring to be useful. We’ve all seen videos over the past few years demonstrating how agile humanoid robots have become, running and jumping with ease. We’re no longer ...

Courtney doesn’t have eyes, but it’s got sensors everywhere. There are two blinking lights on the front of its boxy body to approximate wide, moony pupils. It’s been described as a “large cooler on ...

A team at Northwestern University used artificial intelligence to evolve robot body plans inside a physics simulation, then ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

Should robots be able to cannibalize each other so they can accelerate their evolution, bringing them closer to resembling self-sufficient lifeforms capable of living independently of their human ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Robby and Al Dente are robotic cooking machines designed to make any dish a chef would prepare in a wok or pan, ...