While neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction — just think of C-3PO in Star Wars or Marvin in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — they haven’t really been a focus of research into how ...

Electronics companies have for years paraded around flashy, futuristic prototypes of consumer robots. They've pointed to a not-too-distant future where people will have roaming robot helpers around ...

Robots will soon outnumber humans working in Amazon warehouses, the company says, after years of investment into automation that has replaced people with machines in many jobs. Amazon told The Wall ...