The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

Next year will be about freeing trapped value from legacy manufacturing constraints, compressing time-to-market and reducing ...

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 ...

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

We saw the first real wave of AI-powered toys in 2025, some of which lacked proper safety guardrails. But we already know of ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

Two of NASA's giants of cosmic discovery, including a rover that launched from Florida, have been named among Time's best ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

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

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

AI is changing everything, but what's next? We predict the massive tech trends for 2026, from agentic AI's rise to the new ...