These days, robots with varying degrees of impressiveness can manage all kinds of tasks. But two diminutive humanoids seen boxing with outsize gloves at the recent World AI Conference in Shanghai may ...

Fixing underground water pipes usually means digging up roads and sidewalks — a process that's disruptive and expensive. However, researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. are working on ...

No, not the scary Terminator-like ones beloved of science fiction writers … We're talking about the cute, helpful ones ...

Small delivery robots that use pedestrian areas are spreading on college campuses, with Serve Robotics introducing the latest models with improved sensor and computing power. The industry is now ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a ...

Chinese company LimX Dynamics recently posted a YouTube video of its TRON 1 robot “conquering” the slopes of a ski area in ...

Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're ...

The newest edition of NASA’s small, foldable robots recently practiced their scouting skills and successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern ...

A four-wheeled autonomous lavender-harvesting prototype drives between rows of lavender at The Lucky Clover Farm in Gaylord, Michigan. × Developing a fleet of agile and affordable lavender-harvesting ...

Starship Technologies expands its fleet of delivery robots to more US university campuses, adding Georgia Tech, Cal Poly, University of New Mexico, and several others to its list of over 50 locations.

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well without complaining (much). As prices have dropped, ...