When a new baseball season opens Wednesday night in San Francisco, with the home Giants hosting the New York Yankees, lifelong fans of the national pastime should brace for a dramatic change: the ...

iRobot, once the company synonymous with robot vacuums, might not make it another year. For many years, iRobot was the company you thought of, when you thought of robot vacuums. It wasn’t “I have a ...

There’s something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture. Founded in 1990 in Bedford, Massachusetts by MIT roboticist Rodney ...

iRobot just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, following years of declining revenue. The company was acquired by Picea Robotics, a Chinese robot vacuum manufacturer. While Roomba users will still be ...

When a robotics pioneer who has spent decades building humanoid machines recommends that you stand at least nine feet away from any full-size walking robot, you should probably listen. “My advice to ...

What better day than May 4 — known as Star Wars Day among fans of the franchise — to unveil a robot that aspires to hang with humans as comfortably as C-3PO, R2-D2 and BB-8? Robotics entrepreneur ...