When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

Walk into a tech expo, scroll through a product launch, or watch a future of AI video and you’ll notice a pattern: many robots are designed to look friendly. They have rounded edges, big eyes, soft ...

Apple’s researchers are experimenting with robotics projects, and a recent public demo of their work involved a cute robot lamp prototype. While the lamp isn’t an official new product, it still got me ...