Despite huge technical progress, these robots are still clumsy at handling everyday tasks in homes or hospitals or other ...

In the years to come, robots will help offset worker shortages in health care, manufacturing and other industries, experts ...

A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him ...

Commentary: The idea of a human-controlled robot in your home might sound weird, but perhaps it's not all that different from what we're used to. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a ...

Humanoid home robots are slowly entering consumer markets, but questions about privacy, practicality and human oversight continue to surround the technology.

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the ...

PALO ALTO, CA - JUNE 27: Neo, a humanoid robot that can be both autonomous and "driven" remotely by an operator, poses for a portrait in the 1X office in Palo Alto, California. Startup 1X is building ...

How often are today’s “home robots” actually doing the work alone? In many of the most convincing kitchen-and-laundry demos, a hidden ingredient still matters-a human, somewhere else, ready to take ...

Humanoid robots have officially arrived... sort of. Companies are wheeling out sleek, expensive prototypes with human-like limbs, while cooing PR departments promise a future where your home is ...