WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

Whether they’re delivering food or folding your laundry, consumer-facing robots are increasingly being designed to be more palatable to the humans who interact with them.

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 ...

AI-powered delivery robots from companies like Serve Robotics are replacing human drivers across the nation — but they can't ...

Have you ever wished robots could do more than just follow instructions? Well, that’s where Mirokaï steps in. Born from the creative minds at Paris-based startup Enchanted Tools, Mirokaï isn’t just ...

Sai Baba lay on his back in the cold sunlight on the mountain, his expression untroubled by the four-and-a-half-ton steel robot drilling at his head. The machine buzzed away in a mist of water and ...

At the Mobile World Congress 2026, BGR spoke with China Mobile about its restaurant experiment ran by a humanoid robot waiter ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...