The original Roomba was the first robot vacuum in the US, and the second ever made, following Electrolux’s Trilobite the year ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

From disaster zones, to oil spills, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, iRobot has taken its robot everywhere in its 35 years.

But you can see the market appeal. A robot vacuum cleaner can’t climb stairs to clean an upstairs room. A robot arm that ...

The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

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

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making ...

If you’ve nothing better to do in the run-up to Christmas, then how about enjoying a mesmerizing hour-long video of a ...

The commercial boom in artificial intelligence has sparked interest in humanoid robots. Venture capitalist Modar Alaoui, ...

Roomba once looked like the future. Its maker, iRobot, filled American homes with small but affordable robots that helped ...

Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

Regulators warned Amazon’s iRobot deal would hurt consumers. Instead, the Roomba maker collapsed and sold to China.