When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

Walk into a tech expo, scroll through a product launch, or watch a future of AI video and you’ll notice a pattern: many robots are designed to look friendly. They have rounded edges, big eyes, soft ...

Mirumi is adorable. But living with it reminded me of the limits to the companionship a social robot can provide. is a senior reporter and author of the Optimizer newsletter. She has more than 13 ...

Samsung's Ballie will go on sale in the US and South Korea this summer, the company announced today. What's more, through a partnership with Google Cloud, the diminutive robot will ship with a Gemini ...

You might know about Pixar's emotional robot, WALL-E, who made people shed tears while watching the movie. If you ever wanted WALL-E to show up in real life, Zeroth Robotics has built something that ...

Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while ...