Humanoid home robots are being marketed as the missing link between smart speakers and science fiction, promising to load dishwashers, tidy living rooms, and maybe even keep you company. The price tag ...

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Liam Thompson builds his own robot butler and quickly realizes robots don’t understand sarcasm.

Many of us grew up watching The Jetson’s, and while the flying cars and talking appliances were pretty nifty, it was Rosie the Robot who really stole the show. The future has now arrived, and several ...

In 2025, the Jetsons fantasy of a robot butler stopped feeling like retro-sci fi kitsch and started looking—if you squint through a teleoperator’s VR headset—almost plausible. Meanwhile, investors ...

HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, is here to help. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Personal Robotics Lab created him to develop the technologies necessary to make Rosie the Robot a ...