California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial ...

No basketball. No volleyball, long jump, or steeplechase. Instead, the robot Olympics will have events that reflect how ...

A robot that folds your laundry is the kind of idea that sells itself. Just ask Syncere, a five-person startup that secured more than 1,000 preorders for its Lume robot with nothing but a simulated ...

“Slowly, we’re going to teach the Gatlin robot more things, like starting with dusting, surface cleaning, trash bins and then the toilet,” said Isaac Qureshi, CEO of Gatlin Robotics, adding “toilet’s ...

Nothing captures the public imagination quite like an outrageous contraption that promises to do your most annoying chores for you. Case in point, this week, a video of a laundry-folding robot called ...

I was a little disappointed by China’s World Humanoid Robot Games. As fun as real-life Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots is, what people really care about is robots doing their chores. This is why robot ...

Even builders admit they are a long way from a product Humanoid robot startups are drowning in billions of dollars as ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- On a typical day, Phillip Sharrette, a laundry worker, handles hundreds of pounds of clothes. "The longest and most tedious part is folding the actual articles of clothing," he ...

People are understandably wary about artificial intelligence these days, but it's hard to imagine being upset when a robot is doing your dirty work for you.

Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations. For all the recent advances in the field, humanoid robots, they say, have been overhyped and face daunting technical challenges ...