Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

The computers have a secret, and some people are worried. According to a story from New Scientist, researchers working on the Google Brain Project announced recently that computer systems they created ...

Most people think – all the cool tech companies are in Silicon Valley or Boston… Little did you know – Chicago has a local robot company that’s making moves…literally! Today — we’re joined by RuTech ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...

Children's book author Peter Brown wrote his original "Wild Robot" book in Maine and now lives there among nature. (Yoon S. Byun / For The Times) There are rare moments in the culture when a ...

ESTACADA, Ore. – Diners watched, bemused, as Plato approached their table. The three-and-a-half-foot-tall robot spun and paused, presenting them with their lunch. No one moved, unsure of what would ...

Parenthood is an act often taken for granted. I know this personally as the mom of a 6-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son. I also understand it as a daughter; my mom died before I had the ...

The latest in artificial intelligence (AI) dentistry came to the School of Dental Medicine last week in the form of a robot with a winsome name. Dental students had the opportunity to interact with ...

There are rare moments in the culture when a children's book resonates with everyone. Parents who buy the book for their kids find themselves moved by a story that is not intended for them but somehow ...