Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have ...

Constantly pursuing new ideas feels strategic and proactive, but what it’s actually doing is resetting momentum instead of getting you anywhere new. Anchor every decision to one key metric. Before ...

After testing dozens of robot vacuums at CNET Labs to see how well they clean and avoid obstacles, we discovered an unusual relationship. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a ...

Researchers have unveiled a new method that lets robots handle irregular, curved objects with far greater precision. The system, developed by researchers from the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of ...

It's easy to assume that vacuuming isn't high on anyone's list of favorite activities. Thankfully, the invention of robot vacuums has significantly reduced the amount of time people have to spend on ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...

In 2002, the first Roomba robot vacuum cleaners rolled off the assembly line and into our homes. Well, into the homes of wealthy people, at least. It would be many years before these household robots ...

A search robot developed by researchers in Germany can reportedly track missing objects in homes and dynamic environments by using language models together with three-dimensional mapping. The robot, ...

MUNICH, Germany — Misplaced glasses on the kitchen counter or a phone left somewhere in the living room could soon be found by a robot. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed ...

I always tell people that the best thing I’ve ever tested for my job here on the WIRED Reviews team is my automatic litter box from Litter-Robot. I recommend every cat owner invest in an automatic ...