Some of the most iconic vehicles in popular culture aren't even real cars at all: They're robots. Giant, shape-shifting, planet-destroying aliens that happened to disguise themselves as perfectly ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Robotaxis are silently (and sometimes awkwardly) roaming around Phoenix, San Francisco, Austin and wherever else humans dare let cars do improv in traffic. Waymo, Tesla and soon Amazon want you to ...

In real life, robots are pretty simple. They are just, like, an arm putting cars together or what have you. In movies and TV, though, robots have long been intelligent. They’ve had personalities. They ...