“Robot utility models” sidestep the need to tweak the data used to train robots every time they try to do something in unfamiliar settings. It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments ...

A new system helps robots navigate homes they’ve never seen before with a little help from open-source AI models. Robots are good at certain tasks. They’re great at picking up and moving objects, for ...

In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, ...

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind today unveiled a trio of new advances that it says will help robots make better, faster and safer decisions in the wild. The advances, which ...

iRobot Corp. has introduced two new models that solve pitfalls faced by competing robots – the flagship Roomba Combo j9+ robot vacuum and mop and Roomba j9+ robot vacuum. These two models look to ...