They may seem like scenes out of a slapstick comedy, but viral robot mishaps are no laughing matter — experts even warn they could foreshadow a “Terminator”-level apocalypse. A humanoid dance bot was recently performing for patrons at the Haidilao hotpot restaurant in San Jose,

SwitchBot is introducing a new version of the tiny button-pressing robot that helped launch the company a decade ago. The functionality of the new SwitchBot Bot is exactly the same as the original that the company will continue to sell,

As Kiwibot CEO Felipe Chavez observed at the time, out of the company’s first 80,000 deliveries the bots finished on campus, about 1,600 involved incidents of vandalism. At a cost of $2,500 per Kiwibot, it’s safe to say the damage adds up quick.

While manually hoeing weeds out of crops can be very time- and labor-intensive, spraying those crops with herbicides is definitely not eco-friendly. A German consortium is developing a third choice, in the form of the AMU-Bot weed-killing robot. Moving ...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA is preparing to enter the robotics market with a four-legged machine, positioning itself alongside rising Chinese players and intensifying competition in an emerging but still unproven sector.

With a head-turning, standout debut, East Hampton’s newly formed high school robotics team captured the FIRST Long Island Robotics Rookie All-Star Award at its inaugural competition at Hofstra Univers

CEOs of the largest delivery robot companies say human interference and vandalism doesn't occur as often as people might think.

A new video that shows off what its robot can do was posted by Agility Robotics, centering on the Digit warehouse bot, which after more than 20 hours of doing live demonstrations for those watching it, collapsed on the ground. It is seen that the robot was ...

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A group of late-night revelers belting the Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” from the inside of a roving karaoke trolley was the last thing a delivery robot experienced before being toppled over by a forceful kick from a Philadelphian over the weekend.