When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

Humanoid robots are beginning to take on household tasks, showing how AI-powered machines could soon assist with chores in everyday homes.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

Inspired by a theoretical model of particles moving around on a chessboard, new robot swarm research shows that, as magnetic interactions increase, dispersed 'dumb robots' can abruptly gather in large ...

MOVA has announced two new products in its outdoor robotic home care line. The first is the LiDAX Ultra 3000 AWD robotic lawnmower, and the second is the Rover X10 robotic pool cleaner. Both are aimed ...

The science magazines of the 50s were fond of portraying the future as populated with ‘droids designed to ease life in every way imaginable. Sadly, it is the future, and that’s not quite the way ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

Robot vacuums are the ultimate 'hands-free' appliance, doing the bulk of your floor care for you while you go about your life, especially when their docks empty and clean the robots for you. But you ...

All six of the robot vacuums we tested. From top left to right, the Husqvarna 410 iQ, the Yarbo Lawn Mower, the Airseeker Tron. From bottom left to right, the Eufy E15, the Segway Navimow X390, and ...