The dream of a robot vacuum is you get a salary-free cleaner you can leave to work near-autonomously. Too often the reality is you return to find it stuck on the first rug it stumbles upon. Roborock’s ...

What looks like a simple maze challenge turns into a high-speed robotics race once these tiny machines start moving. After using an opening run to map the layout, the fastest robots come back and ...

When I walk into my laboratory on weekday mornings, it is not unusual to hear uncontrollable shrieks of glee or fits of giggles. Laughter is not traditionally thought of as the noise of neuroscience, ...

UPDATE: Mar. 13, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT The Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai robot vacuum costs $1,199.99 and is officially available to buy as of March 12. This story was originally written when the Spot+Scrub Ai was ...

The robot completed the puzzle in just 45.3 seconds, breaking its own record of 55 seconds made just moments earlier. By Mack DeGeurin Published Mar 12, 2026 1:04 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in ...

Watch a tiny robot solve a maze in just 6 seconds In the Micromouse competition, tiny autonomous robots race to solve complex mazes as quickly as possible. Some of the fastest robots can complete the ...

A maze is a type of puzzle involving a collection of paths, usually where a player has to find a route from start to finish. A huge variety of algorithms exist for generating and solving mazes. These ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At CES 2026, we put the robots to the test to see whether they’re ready for real homes — or still stuck in demo ...

TearyHand Studio is a Japanese developer that specializes in games with strong narratives. Its 2025 release, and Roger, certainly fits within the studio’s motif. The game is filled with emotive ...

The study, conducted by Brookhaven theoretical physicist Weiguo Yin and described in a recent paper published in Physical Review B, is the first paper emerging from the "AI Jam Session" earlier this ...

A semi-autonomous robot dog that uses artificial intelligence to perform actions such as walking filmed someone peering through a Caltrans fence — a move that one official equated with catching a ...