Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came across an unusual but well-designed robot at a secondhand shop. The ...

Robot vacuums never quite impressed me until this one. After spending time with the Lefant M5 Pro LiDAR Robot Vacuum and Mop, the experience completely changed my expectations for smart cleaning at ...

Smart home devices promise convenience, but the recent DJI robot vacuum hack exposes just how vulnerable these gadgets can be. In an unexpected turn of events, a hobbyist programmer connected a ...

The era in which artificial intelligence can help teach children has arrived in a Hialeah school. Her name is Pepper. What began as a grandfather’s dream to build the best possible kindergarten for ...

Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky barrels. Wooden barrels are what make ...

Eduardo B. Sandoval is a Friend of The Conversation. Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform ...

SUZHOU, China—Elon Musk has been telling investors for months that Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot will revolutionize the world and create a new mega-industry. But most of it could belong to China, he ...

The company will reveal its Gen 3 robot in the first quarter of 2026. The company will reveal its Gen 3 robot in the first quarter of 2026. is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who ...

Airbus is dipping its toes into the humanoid robot workforce with a purchase of China-based UBTech’s robots, according to Bloomberg. The European airplane manufacturer is apparently going to try to ...

CES always brings robots – some useful, some confusing, some that feel like movie props that wandered into the wrong conference. In 2026, there’s a real shift: Robots aren’t trying to be sci-fi ...

Samsung Electronics Co. has once again sidelined Ballie, a long-anticipated robot that was first announced six years ago but never released. The device — designed to roll and roam throughout the home ...