Despite huge technical progress, these robots are still clumsy at handling everyday tasks in homes or hospitals or other ...

Robotics company SwitchBot has launched its first humanoid robot, Onero H1, a household robot designed to address difficult-to-automate household tasks at CES 2026. The robot is a part of a unified AI ...

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

How often are today’s “home robots” actually doing the work alone? In many of the most convincing kitchen-and-laundry demos, a hidden ingredient still matters-a human, somewhere else, ready to take ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its ...