Broadcom has firepower in the world of AI. It works with big tech companies to custom-design proprietary chips; for example, ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

When I bought my first robot vacuum, I thought my floors would thereafter be effortlessly spotless—endlessly patrolled by a 24/7 custodian, with absolutely no work required on my part. Today, there ...

What if a robot could handle cleaning, serving and even complex tasks around your home or workplace? That's exactly what X Square Robot hopes to deliver with its latest launch. The company just ...

With its promises of talking refrigerators, robot cooks and sentient mirrors, what can artificial intelligence in the home actually accomplish right now? The answer, experts say, is more―and less―than ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched the R1, its most affordable humanoid robot, at a shockingly low asking price of US$5,900. It's hard to fathom that you can now get a walking, command-obeying ...

Boston Dynamics can be forgiven, I think, for the relative lack of acrobatic prowess displayed by the new version of Atlas in (most of) its latest videos. In fact, if you look at this Atlas video from ...

A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...

I keep track of my tech purchases and just now noticed that my Roomba will be celebrating its tenth birthday later this year. The battery is pretty crap and everything else is not very shiny anymore ...