The advent of robotics and automation stands as one of the most transformative chapters in America’s industrial history. As we ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making ...

Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

So here we are: Roomba, the tech that put consumer robots on the map, now feels relatively ho-hum — one brand among many automated vacuums on the market — while the dream of an Optimus-esque bot to ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

But the tone and pizzazz of IREX has always been provided by the humanoids. It’s a somehow thrilling spectacle to see robots ...

California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors -- too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, ...