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.

In a rare moment of candor for an industry that often sells the future in glossy demos and polished keynote slides, a Chinese robot maker has acknowledged a hard truth: today’s robots can be only ...

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla's Optimus is pitched as an all-purpose humanoid robot that can do the heavy lifting on factory floors and free ...