A sidewalk delivery robot built by California-based Serve Robotics features an ad from dating app Tinder. (Photo by Maylin Tu) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

Mind Children, a Seattle startup, is developing Codey, a humanoid robot, for classrooms and elderly home care facilities.

“Artificial intelligence doesn’t always want to optimize your life or steal your job. Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend.” That one line sums up a change that is taking place in consumer ...

AI robotics company Figure posted several videos on X throughout May showcasing its robots performing basic tasks, including cleaning a room and sorting packages. Modern artificial ...

China’s UBTECH has launched what it says is the world’s first mass-produced full-sized humanoid robot series for consumers.

Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event held in Beijing on April 19. The demonstration of fast-improving robotic speed ...

Swimming pools are fun. Cleaning swimming pools is not fun. I learned this simple logic as a kid growing up in and around pools—it’s the only way to survive summer in Houston. Four years ago, I became ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...

I’ve never enjoyed cutting the grass. For years, I struggled with an old inherited gas mower that refused to die but often refused to start. Then I had a cheap electric mower with a cord that I had to ...