The robots are on trial as the companies operate under a pilot program that expires in May 2027. Chicago’s City Council would need to take action to allow the robots to stay in Chicago after next spring.

BEIJING — They aren’t the most graceful athletes, or the fastest. But they’re learning. From Friday to Sunday, human handlers from 16 countries put about 500 bipedal robots through various motions to showcase the promise and limits of embodied ...

If you asked someone 10 years ago if they liked their robot vacuum, most answers would fall somewhere on the "not really" to "hell no" scale. Many old robot vacuums seemed to have no logical cleaning path and no protective instincts to keep them from ...

“I hate this!” That’s how Jude from Oregon reacted to my newsletter last week about Abi, the AI-powered companion robot that has been deployed in some senior care facilities to reduce isolation.

A humanoid robot known as Edward Warchocki was caught on video chasing a group of wild boars off a Warsaw street, creating a surreal moment that has quickly spread online.

It’s easy to be charmed by the first delivery robot you see. I was driving with my kids in our Chicago neighborhood when I spotted one out the window last year. It was a cheerful pink color, with an orange flag fluttering at about eye level and four ...

Is there a word in any language to describe the strange secondhand embarrassment you feel toward a robot making a fool of itself? There really should be. It’s how I felt when I watched this snazzily dressed dancing robot eating dirt at a tech expo.

If you ever wanted to win a bar bet about a world record, you probably know about the Guinness book for World Records. Did you know, though, that there are some robots in that book? Guinness pointed some out in a recent post. Ever wonder about the longest ...