Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too. Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, ...

The Roombas in question were not commercially available — they were development robots given to testers. However, several researchers have uncovered privacy issues with robot vacuums produced by ...

A beta version of a Roomba snapped a photo of a person on a toilet and sent it to the cloud. That and other leaked photos shed light on the data supply chain that powers smart home automation. Sure, ...

In the previous part of this blog series, i-Robot: A new approach to robotics to make our life easier and safer, Part 6, I described robots that can assist people that are not self-sufficient. There ...

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.

Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...