Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

Sure, a handheld personal digital assistant can beep its brains out to remind you of a noon appointment, but what if you left it at home? The beeping would be for naught - unless that Palm Pilot could ...

The [Dallas Personal Robotics Group] recently put together a set of tutorials for their members, including the build process of a table-top robot, they call the Tiny Wanderer. The bot can be ...

NYU's Leif Ristroph wanted to design an exceedingly simple miniature flying robot. Instead of finding inspiration in insects, he turned to the jellyfish, a water dweller. Whereas insect-like bots ...

Neil Tyler talks to Daniel Camilleri, founder and chief executive of BOW, a spinout that has developed a single software solution that can control any robot. BOW is a Sheffield-based company that ...

Despite fears that robots will conquer the world, they currently, with a few exceptions, often have problems with basic tasks such as opening doors or climbing stairs. Now, in a new study appearing ...

Chores are one of life’s necessities, but while your grungy floors indeed need cleaning, you don’t have to be the one to do the dirty work. Today, Amazon is selling Anker’s Eufy G30 Edge robot vacuum ...

In the future, even your friendly household robot might need a story before powering down at night. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that they have come up with a solution for ...

I spent most of spring and a good chunk of summer turning my backyard into a parking lot to test the best robot lawn mowers. In the process of doing that, I learned a lot about their benefits and ...