TODAY’S KIDS will think it weird that robots were ever considered some space-age novelty. Children are already surrounded by voices (see Siri, Alexa) that respond to their every whim, and pet-like ...

This full-size "Care-bot" is designed for interactive companion. Its soft-touch outer shell and multimodal emotional interaction system bring the concept of "warm tech companionship" to life. If the ...

TinkerBots is a new building set with easy-to-add robotics that enables boys and girls as young as five--and adults, too--to easily create all kinds of toy robots simply by snapping together ...

Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story joins the Robosen lineup of voice-controlled bots including Optimus Prime, Grimlock, and Megatron. I've been writing professionally about computers, the internet, and ...

Astra, a 4-foot-tall silver cyborg, is still in training, and her gig at Astra Vascular so far includes waving at customers, ...

"It's not so much about winning, it's just about having a good fight," says Becky Dowson, who has travelled to ...

Once the vanguard of a new age of consumer bots, the cute but doomed “social robot” Jibo is now marching toward obsolescence in the most friendly way possible: By politely informing owners that their ...

Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?

Figure AI makes humanoid robots and they have raised $1 billion where the company is valued at $39 billion. Figure’s CEO, ...

Amazon announced its Astro home robot on Monday, which is designed to be an Alexa on wheels that can also bring you stuff (if other people load it into the cargo bay) and act as a sort of guard dog.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage in robotics these days, and for good reason: Properly implemented, it has the potential to program ‘bots on the fly. That’s the promise behind Cozmo, the ...