The original Roomba was the first robot vacuum in the US, and the second ever made, following Electrolux’s Trilobite the year prior. A basic bump-and-roll bot with bump and cliff sensors, the Roomba rolled randomly around your home, sucking up dirt, bumping from wall to wall, and generally trying not to fall down stairs.

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

There's an app for everything. And everything has an App Store. Including, now, humanoid robots, courtesy of Unitree.

robot revolution AI Over 500 years later, an MIT team has recreated the design with a model and have showed that it would have worked. Leonardo’s design incorporates architectural techniques that would have not been seen for another 300 years.

In 1962, ‘The Jetsons’ flopped. But the tech industry has never stopped trying to bring the show’s lovable and trusty robot maid to life.

The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has sparked interest in humanoid robots. Venture capitalist Modar Alaoui, founder of the Humanoids Summit, gathered over 2,000 people, including top engineers from Disney and Google,

United Parcel Service Inc. will invest $120 million in 400 robots used to unload trucks, according to people familiar with the matter, revealing new details on the logistics giant’s $9 billion automation plan that aims to boost profits by decreasing labor costs.

WYBOT, a company at the forefront of advanced pool cleaning solutions, is preparing to release its innovative WYBOT S3 Pool Cleaning Robot to Australian customers this Christmas, marketing it as the perfect festive present.

Robot’s Roomba became synonymous with robot vacuums, but a failed Amazon deal and intensifying competition from Chinese rivals proved a death knell for the company. The company would continue regular operation under Picea’s ownership;