Do you need a friend you can always count on to be there? Do you have a couple hundred grand you don’t mind spending? Then the Realbotix company has got just the thing for you: a lifelike AI-powered ...

This blond, "female" robot named Aria is powered by AI for her conversation skills, with 17 motors driving her facial expressions so she appears as human as possible. Corinne Reichert (she/her ...

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AI-enabled and virtual training gets robots to work faster—and will empower a more flexible era of automation. In partnership withSiemens Imagine the bustling floors of tomorrow’s ...

Cool, a little bizarre, and in some cases smack dab in the uncanny valley, more robots are on the way. Techies in Las Vegas just got their best look yet at the robots various companies are ...

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In a rare timely episode, John and Jason discuss a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman that Apple is designing a series of robots, including a “robot” that sits on a table and moves its display around ...

UPDATE: Jan. 10, 2025, 5:00 a.m. EST Several new flagship robot vacuums from Roborock, Eufy, and more were announced at CES 2025. I'm in the process of getting my hands on them for at-home testing ...