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 ...

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 ...

Ever heard of the Keepon robot? Originally created as a therapeutic tool to interact with children with autism and other social disorders, this cute, dancing, and addictive social robot has gained ...

How to clean a robot vacuum cleaner. We spoke to Elizabeth Shields, operations manager of Super Cleaning Service, on the ins ...

Chores are one of life’s necessities, but while your grungy floors indeed need cleaning, you don’t have to be the one to do the dirty work. Today, Amazon is selling Anker’s Eufy G30 Edge robot vacuum ...

Neil Tyler talks to Daniel Camilleri, founder and chief executive of BOW, a spinout that has developed a single software solution that can control any robot. BOW is a Sheffield-based company that ...

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 ...

In the future, even your friendly household robot might need a story before powering down at night. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that they have come up with a solution for ...

Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...

Products of the Japanese imagination have become American fads in the past—think Hello Kitty, Pokemon, or Tamigotchi. But in the case of My Keepon, which Toys “R” Us is betting might be the next ...