NEW YORK — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, ...

Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them. I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static ...

For his final minimalist character puzzle, Fabian Glez (who previously gave superheroes and supervillains the minimalist treatment) has rendered 87 friendly robots (and Bender) as minimalist polygons.