Hello again, and thank you for spending time with Fast Company’s Plugged In. Last October, I visited the Silicon Valley headquarters of 1X Technologies—the startup behind a humanoid home robot called ...

Remember Rosie from "The Jetsons?" For those too young, Rosie was a futuristic robot helper in a classic cartoon. Now, the idea of having such a robot in our homes feels like it's inching closer to ...

In the 60s children’s cartoon “The Jetsons,” Rosie the Robot was featured as a futuristic mechanical maid who cleaned the clutter of the household, much to the delight of the time-strapped housewife.