Adorable machines have a secret advantage when it comes to their human owners.

After stepping down as iRobot’s chief executive, Angle founded Familiar Machines & Magic, a Woburn, Massachusetts “physical ...

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.

Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2), a lunar robot from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), could have been plucked ...