Although not quite as mainstream as robot vacuums, robot lawn mowers are becoming increasingly popular. These nifty devices make it easy to maintain a beautiful lawn without lifting a finger — ...

Robotics research is steadily advancing towards a future where robots can be integrated into daily human life, can do mundane tasks, and free up people’s time for more enjoyable activities. While it ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence – called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) – ...

A household robot can learn how to do almost any chore in about 20 minutes when taught by a human using an iPhone camera and a litter picker. Robots tend to perform well only on specific tasks that ...

Who couldn't use a little help cleaning up around the house? Right? Imagine a little helper robot that could clean up rooms around your home all by itself. Scientists at New York University and AI at ...

Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to programming — they’ll need to ...

What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robot designed to help you out around the ...

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Bipedal (two-legged) robots are sophisticated machines, but they are not the most graceful when things go wrong. A simple ...

correction An earlier version of this story mistakenly attributed a comment about robot vacuums getting stuck under furniture to Julien Levesque. It was actually from Michael Silva Nash. The story has ...