What is a robot? Carlo Ratti – director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab and an adviser to the Vitra Design Museum’s new Hello Robot exhibition – defines a robot as anything with sensors (tools or ...

This is Stretch — or, more precisely, the Stretch Research Edition. The name certainly conveys the tall, skinny and minimalist design of the home helper robot. Stretch is different and somehow ...

We have come a long way, in the history of robotics, from the days of “Elektro, the Moto-Man”, a star turn of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. A 7ft-tall golden humanoid equipped with a vocabulary of ...

A robotics company co-founded by an ex-Google executive has launched its first ever product called, Stretch. The bot, which Hello Robot has spent three years developing, is being marketed as a 'home ...

From pet cyber-seals to cars with minds of their own, an exploration of the science and fiction of robots raises more questions than it answers The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a ...

More and more people are turning to robots to do their household chores, such as mowing lawns and vacuuming carpets, according to a survey. Demand for robots jumped by a unprecedented 26% in the first ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Visual Arts news every morning. In the 1930s there were two kinds of robot story, the visionary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov ...

The road to the home robot is one fraught with peril. The number of success stories it’s delivered can be counted on a single hand. The reasons for this massive disconnect are nuanced and complex -- ...

In a corner of San Francisco's Metreon shopping center, by the food court and adjacent to the movie theater, there's a robot barista. Once the order is in, the industrial-style robot arm briskly moves ...

As robots become ever more sophisticated, what future role could they play in the early years – and do practitioners need to fear for their jobs? Charlotte Goddard reports In nurseries and schools ...