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

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

From disaster zones, to oil spills, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, iRobot has taken its robot everywhere in its 35 years.

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

Robot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making ...

If you’ve nothing better to do in the run-up to Christmas, then how about enjoying a mesmerizing hour-long video of a ...

China’s $1,400 Bumi humanoid robot highlights a widening price gap with US robots, raising new questions in the global AI and robotics race.

Regulators warned Amazon’s iRobot deal would hurt consumers. Instead, the Roomba maker collapsed and sold to China.

The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has sparked interest in humanoid robots. Venture capitalist Modar Alaoui, ...

Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...