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 ...

Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be introduced in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DALTON — Once the announcer shouted "go," four robots sprang into action, scavenging ruins, clearing boulders, and excavating artifacts, with a crew of four students overseeing them. Hundreds of fans ...