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 ...

Since its founding in 2010 by three Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute grads, Anki has been at the forefront of realizing our robot-in-the-home reality—through disarmingly adorable toys. The company’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coming home to see your cat still lying in the same spot it was when you left that morning, it’s easy to assume they’re pretty happy with nothing to do. But as curious and social creatures they do get ...

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

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