Tech companies are making AI-powered robots cuter and more realistic to increase comfort and accelerate adoption in homes and public spaces. DoorDash, the largest food delivery service in the U.S., ...

Walk into a tech expo, scroll through a product launch, or watch a future of AI video and you’ll notice a pattern: many robots are designed to look friendly. They have rounded edges, big eyes, soft ...

When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on wheels for my experiments’ perspective. In that case, ...