Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

The original Roomba was the first robot vacuum in the US, and the second ever made, following Electrolux’s Trilobite the year ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On a languid summer afternoon, I drive to Milton Keynes, a midsize city 60 miles northwest of London and a few miles ...

Now, however, Stanford researchers have used artificial intelligence to steer a free-flying robot aboard the International ...

Stanford researchers have become the first to demonstrate that machine-learning control can safely guide a robot aboard the ISS, laying the groundwork for more autonomous space missions. Imagine a ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.

While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim controlled robots on a simulated martian landscape in Germany. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Footage: ESA/DLR Europe at ...

Shanghai — A Chinese robot has stepped into the Guinness World Records after completing a three-day, 66-mile trek, the longest reported distance ever walked by a humanoid machine. The AgiBot A2, which ...

One of the best modern Cyberpunk shows of all time is leaving Netflix US after December 2025, making it your last chance to ...

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China’s powerful economic-planning agency warned of the risks of a bubble forming in the country’s humanoid robotics industry, issuing a rare official expression of concern about a pivotal sphere of ...