Is it possible to have a robot achieve human-level dexterity just by watching video tutorials? To answer these questions, I ...

Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

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

From disaster zones, to oil spills, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, iRobot has taken its robot everywhere in its 35 years.

AI powered robots are slowly making their way into our world, from delivery bots on wheels to caregiver bots for the planet’s ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...