On January 9, 2007, at the Macworld convention, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. Later, in June the same year, it was released — and the world would never be the same again. Before that moment, ...

Ready for a home robot that wakes you up, makes breakfast and even cleans the house afterward? It may sound far-fetched. However, the Chinese robotics company UniX AI says it is closer than most ...

In the previous part of this blog series, i-Robot: A new approach to robotics to make our life easier and safer, Part 6, I described robots that can assist people that are not self-sufficient. There ...

Imagine a world where your morning coffee is brewed by a robot that remembers your exact preferences, your home is cleaned by a machine with human-like dexterity, and factories are staffed by tireless ...

Meet Up’s owner Yong Wang (middle) enlisted the services of UCSB students Ryan Tian (left) and Jerry Yang (right) to program the humanoid robots, who are both named ChaCha. | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom My ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

How can a robot be inserted in a smart house setup? There are many answers to this question, one good example is the new robot made by Samsung Company that is able to answer to a vocal command by a ...