Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the future Elon Musk envisions, is “pure fantasy thinking,” in part because ...

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help ...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying ...

MIT researchers are building robot insects to mimic the way real bugs fly, crawl, and sense their environment. These micro-machines are designed to test lightweight materials, flexible electronics, ...