In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

They promise weeks of hands-free cleaning, but auto-empty robot vacuums defer maintenance rather than eliminating it. Here's what you need to know about the hidden costs and upkeep before you buy one.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Get rid of all those leaves, dead bugs, and other debris floating on your pool. The Aiper EcoSurfer S2 can take care of ...

The science magazines of the 50s were fond of portraying the future as populated with ‘droids designed to ease life in every way imaginable. Sadly, it is the future, and that’s not quite the way ...

All six of the robot vacuums we tested. From top left to right, the Husqvarna 410 iQ, the Yarbo Lawn Mower, the Airseeker Tron. From bottom left to right, the Eufy E15, the Segway Navimow X390, and ...

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Robots don't have to be overly complex to perform more than basic tasks. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created SIMbot, a human-sized cylindrical robot that gets around with only one ...

Inspired by a theoretical model of particles moving around on a chessboard, new robot swarm research shows that, as magnetic interactions increase, dispersed 'dumb robots' can abruptly gather in large ...