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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

Foundation’s Phantom robot might be built to fight and die, and Figure’s 03 humanoid robot is probably the smoothest, most agile robot I’ve seen in running, turning, and moving, but EngineAI’s T800 – ...

Should Roomba owners worry about their robot vacuum after iRobot's bankruptcy? Here's what the company says. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images It's been a tough few years for iRobot, maker of the ...

In early December 2025, Chinese robotics firm EngineAI introduced its humanoid robot T800. Unlike those already seen by BGR, including Neura's task-oriented 4NE1 robot, which will eventually help ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...

Pickle Robot, which builds autonomous unloading robots for warehouses and distribution centers, announced a new chief financial officer just days after a report of a major deal with UPS. The ...

We look at the promise and peril of robots that look like humans. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. Scientists and entrepreneurs are working tirelessly toward a strange goal: robots that ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

The police agency prepares to deal with kid-grooming care robots, terrorist drone attacks, and ‘bot-bashing’ rioters. The police agency prepares to deal with kid-grooming care robots, terrorist drone ...

Videos of humanoid robots dancing, doing cartwheels, putting clothes in a washing machine, and serving drinks are all over social media. And tech CEOs are telling us to prepare for the forthcoming ...

If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic radiation and extreme temperatures. But how does one go about safely exploring ...