At the Silicon Valley summit, over 2,000 attendees, including tech giants like Google and Disney, gather to explore the ...
Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, ...
Investor interest in humanoid robots is growing as AI advances spur new startups, debate and competition with China.
This line is spoken during one of Robots’ most heartfelt and defining moments — when Rodney Copperbottom, a young inventor ...
Could the world’s “biggest product” turn out to be its biggest fantasy? Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of iRobot and a pioneer ...
"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.
Robust.AI co-founder Rodney Brooks, a pioneering roboticist and co-creator of the widely selling Roomba robot vacuum, ...
A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.
The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.
So here we are: Roomba, the tech that put consumer robots on the map, now feels relatively ho-hum — one brand among many ...
But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...
From disaster zones, to oil spills, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, iRobot has taken its robot everywhere in its 35 years.