Commentary: The idea of a human-controlled robot in your home might sound weird, but perhaps it's not all that different from what we're used to. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a ...

Just don't expect it to do literally anything else.

A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the ...

X, a Norwegian-US tech firm, has launched Neo, a humanoid robot designed to transform household tasks. Despite advancements, privacy concerns and socioeconomic implications persist, as remote workers ...

San Francisco-based startup Weave Robotics has launched its first-ever stationary robotics platform that can ...

NEW YORK — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, ...

I’ve been teaching robotics at the University of Washington for more than a decade. Every class begins with “robotics news of the week.” For years, humanoid robots appeared only occasionally—usually ...

Humanoid home robots are slowly entering consumer markets, but questions about privacy, practicality and human oversight continue to surround the technology.

For the second year in a row, Roborock was the talk of CES in Las Vegas. At the 2025 show, the Saros Z70 wowed with the world's first robot vacuum with a mechanical arm to clear obstacles from its ...