Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as ...

Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar was seen enjoying a playful moment with Champak, the IPL's new robot dog, at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium before a match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and ...

Tesla Inc.’s production of Optimus, a robot that promises to take over household chores, has been disrupted by China’s curbs on rare earth exports, introduced by Beijing earlier this month in ...

The Unitree G1 has been charming people at trade shows It's a bright spring morning in Hanover, Germany, and I'm on my way to meet a robot. I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot ...

Right now, you can pick up the super compact Switchbot K10+ robot vacuum for just £169.99 at Amazon (was £299.99). That's the cheapest this tiny robovac has ever been, even beating last year's ...

BEIJING — In the global race to produce robots that are smarter and faster, China’s humanoids have come a long way. Robots from cutting-edge Chinese companies can dance and spin or do ...

On one side: three dudebros in their early 20s. On the other: a pair of 3-foot-tall black-and-white Dax security robots. The robots sternly inform the men they’re trespassing on the IDEA Tempe ...

A robot sorts lug nuts before attaching wheels to electric cars at a Zeekr plant in Ningbo, China.Credit...Qilai Shen for The New York Times Supported by By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine ...

China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Shanghai Elon Musk ...