We're done with harsh overhead lighting. One of the most helpful uses for AI in your home comes from setting a lighting schedule. With smart plugs, smart lamps, smart bulbs, and smart wall light ...

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with tasks asynchronously. Enter zclaw.

In No Exit, readers follow the unlikely hero, college student Darby Thorne, in a race to see her mother suffering from pancreatic cancer in Utah before it’s too late. Darby struggles to drive through ...

Princeton has firmly established its presence at the forefront of AI research — including transformative work in humanities scholarship.

Portal reshaped the way that puzzle platformer mechanics were approached, and this hidden gem managed to one-up the beloved ...

UNC researchers are training an AI robot named "Fetch" to think, map spaces and work with humans. Robots can mow lawns and clean houses, but the real frontier is teaching them to think. At UNC-Chapel ...

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Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot company backed by Nvidia and Uber, is expanding into a new category with its latest acquisition: healthcare. Los Angeles-based Serve Robotics announced ...

We saw it all at CES, from laundry-folding robots to sex bots. These are the five products that topped our headlines. Nasha is a Managing Editor for CNET, overseeing our sleep and wellness verticals.

Samsung has shelved Ballie, killing plans for a consumer launch that was once teased for summer 2025. Ballie has shifted from a planned retail product to an internal “active innovation platform,” ...

Since 2020, Samsung has been dangling a yellow ball in front of us. That sphere is a robot named Ballie that Samsung has teased and demoed for home use, including serving as a smart speaker. Today, ...