US-based Weave Robotics has unveiled Isaac 1, a wheeled mobile home robot designed to

Isaac 1 by Weave Robotics folds laundry, makes beds and tidies rooms autonomously, but its cameras and remote teleoperation raise privacy questions.

In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones autonomously fly through the skies to drop off orders at customers’ homes,

Weave Robotics announced its first robot for folding laundry just five months ago, and it already has a new product on offer. Like its predecessor, the new Isaac 1 robot also folds clothes. But unlike the old model,

How to solve the problems of economic migrants and farming automation, asks a UK robotics company. Cue a controversial – and unexpectedly revealing – idea. Farms worldwide face severe challenges: casual workers are hard to find in the harvest season.

Robots are beginning to appear in the public arena, such as in restaurants and supermarkets. But most are still hidden away in industrial settings, including warehouses and factories. That is set to change within the next decade, predicts Takahide Yoshiike ...