POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in plastic containers, the sort ...

Discover how the Whisker - Litter Robot EVO performs in real homes. This review explores its odor control, setup, app features, and daily ease of use. Learn whether this smart, self-cleaning litter ...

Vacuuming is one of those daily chores that can be a pain in the neck (and back, depending on how often you have to stoop and stretch to reach hard-to-access areas). But as robot vacuums get smarter ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

Today, we can focus on the minute details of making robots effective because engineers have been involved in making them work for a long time. One of the earliest was “Eric,” a robot developed in 1928 ...

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