As physical distancing guidelines remain in effect because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are increasingly enlisting robots to help close the gap. In central England, the town of Milton Keynes has a ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

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 ...

Experts in artificial intelligence have built a computer program that can understand simple jokes, marking an important step in making robots seem friendlier to humans, the weekly New Scientist ...

Fei Liu was tired of trying to find herself a romantic partner. So she set out to make her own partner. Literally. His name is Gabriel 2052 and he's Liu's robot boyfriend. Liu started building him ...