Imagine you’re walking through your neighborhood and a four-foot-tall robot walks up beside you. It greets you by name, remembers your favorite coffee order, and offers to carry your groceries. You’ve ...

It was early January 2016, and I had just joined Google X, Alphabet’s secret innovation lab. My job: help figure out what to do with the employees and technology left over from nine robot companies ...

Instead of designing a humanoid robot with AI reasoning and neural networks, you can just teach it yourself. Researchers at Stanford University developed a robot that can imitate what you’re doing in ...

Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...

Why This Is Important: The reason this is such a game-changer is that most robots are one-trick ponies. A walking robot gets stuck if it needs to cross water. Why Should I Care: This isn’t just about ...

Energy companies say a labor shortage is one big obstacle to installing more solar power. They’re turning to machines to speed things up. By Brad Plumer The companies racing to build large solar farms ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...