When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away from any full-size walking robot, you should probably listen. “My advice to ...

You don’t really need to know anything about the plot of the new kids’ flick, Robots, to predict what it’s about. Its story is as unimaginative as its title–a likable, cutely named robot, Rodney ...

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the ...

Rodney King had already been tinkering for 20 years on a robot that could automate retail when his sons joined him for the next step: co-founding the tech startup Autobotit. In a concept store on ...