Robots and self-driving cars have one very large challenge in common, how to navigate the world. Typically, that task is approached by artificial intelligence as a problem of how to map the ...

Aerial drones steal most of the limelight, but robots built to roam cities at ground level may also play a big role in automated delivery services of the future. An engineering team at MIT has been ...

Any robot vacuum owner can understand my frustration over having to occasionally save my bot from gobbling up a pair of socks, being tripped up by pesky wires, or even getting stuck under furniture.