California-based 1X Technologies is accepting pre-orders for its Neo home robot and wants to use your home to train it ...

After three months of testing Roborock's ambitious Saros Z70, its headline-grabbing robotic arm is still just a proof of concept. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, ...

When robots are built with biological materials, they have the potential to achieve remarkable behaviors typically only seen ...

Analysts estimate as-yet unlaunched Apple Robotics could generate about $130 billion a year by 2040, matching the scale of ...

At first glance, robots would appear to have exactly nothing in common with sweet peas or other climbing vines. Yet thanks to some innovative scientists, they now share at least one trait: the ability ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum’s Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum points out ...

Imagine a string that can assemble itself into just about anything wherever and whenever you need it — a wrench to adjust your child’s bike seat or a hammer to pound a nail into the wall, for example.

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The 1979 book Wasn’t the Future Wonderful? features the above two-page spread of Jack Dempsey challenging a robot. Unfortunately, the book doesn’t specify the publication or date except that it’s from ...

The red ring of death is an inevitable conclusion for most Xbox 360 owners. But instead of mourning his console's loss, U.K.-based student Jasper Stevens did something fun to give his lifeless and out ...

The Saros Z70 is priced at $2,599, making it one of the most expensive robot vacuums I've seen. You can buy two robot vacuums for this price. The most notable feature is the OmniGrip mechanical arm ...