Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the modern age of virtual reality headsets and artificial intelligence or AI, technology continues to advance. One of the ...

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — On an indoor soccer field here, a championship-winning team is running its drills. Each player ...

Even as the education technology industry rushes to develop robots that can deliver therapy to autistic children, research shows the devices are ineffective and unwanted, according to a new study ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

Editor’s note: “Musk Is All In on Robots: Why You Should Be, Too” was previously published in June 2025 with the title, “The Robot Elon Musk Thinks Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone.” It has since been ...

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Why would you want a robot to see inside a sealed box? Digging deeper beyond the initial creepy thought, a new breakthrough from MIT could soon let warehouse robots do something pretty remarkable.

Meet the Mirokaï — fox-eared, ball-rolling robots from another planet rewriting the rulebook on human-robot interaction. Designed in Paris, deployed in hospital wards and airports and built on an ...

Police have used drones and robots over the years for purposes ranging from getting an eye-in-the-sky view of accidents to remotely tear-gassing a hard-to-reach suspect. Many anticipate police use of ...

Robot vacuums promise hands-free cleaning, but frequent rescues, maintenance, and missed spots often turn automation into ...

(NYT36) LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif.-- Nov. 5, 2007 -- GOOGLE-CELLPHONE -- Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, with one of his robotic helicopters at his home in Los Altos Hills, Calif., on ...

It will be highly specialized industrial robots that continue to improve safety, quality, performance, and even close the ...