When 12-year-old Matteo Mucchetti mapped out an amusement-style attraction that he wanted to create in his family’s basement and then showed it to his older brother Nico, the high-school sophomore was ...

Sunday, an artificial intelligence robotics startup founded by Stanford Ph.D. roboticists, launched today to introduce Memo: a household robot capable of doing everyday chores. The new robot is built ...

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled “Strange Playfellow ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

A conversation with the Microsoft AI boss about boundaries, digital species, and the future of chatbots. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

In a lab tucked away in Poland, a group of engineers is quietly redefining what it means to build a robot. Not with circuits or gears, but with synthetic muscles, ligaments and something they’re ...

From surgical robots to humanoid robot fleets for household chores, here's what Nvidia announced about its robots at GTC. Reading time 4 minutes Nvidia is betting on an AI-driven robot workforce to ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot.

Build-A-Bear Workshop has reported record revenue and growth in the past year, even amid economic uncertainty from tariffs and recession fears. CEO Sharon Price John told CNBC she attributes the ...

Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, is now on the path to becoming its first trillionaire. Tesla’s shareholders recently approved a massive pay package for the CEO, including some $1 trillion ...