Robots are everywhere in our imaginations—helping older adults at home, stocking warehouses, cleaning offices, and taking on dangerous jobs that humans shouldn’t have to do. Yet outside of factories ...

For decades, futurists have promised that robots will transform society, yet that still feels like a distant prospect. In this episode, recorded live at the “Web Summit” technology conference in ...

For a couple of years now, as AI’s uncanny capabilities have exploded, people on both sides of the debate (proponents versus detractors) have been waiting for humanoid robot dexterity to evolve, in ...

At 2025's Nvidia GTC event, a bipedal robot named Blue fumbled around stage and disobeyed simple commands. This year at the show, Olaf the robot did better.

In 2021, 60 Minutes visited the offices of robotics company Boston Dynamics and met an early model of its humanoid robot, Atlas. It could run, jump and maintain its balance when pushed. But it was ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Purdue University researcher Sooyeon Jeong is working to make robots more helpful and personable. Jeong, an assistant professor of computer science, leads a lab that focuses on ...

Kassidy Shedd (MSR '24) has spent years fascinated by medical technology and how it can help people. She has a particular interest in surgical robots, but she knows their high price tag puts them out ...

Robot vacuums do require a bit of manual care, so be sure to avoid these key mistakes one can make in maintaining and running one of these cleaning bots.