If your teenager is spending more time building their own tech than playing video games, it might be time to give them a more hands-on challenge. Robotics kits have come a long way from simple wheels ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

In our first 24 hours with Unitree's Go2 Pro robot dog, we challenged its AI object avoidance with an obstacle course, tested its balancing skills on stairs and rocky ground, experimented with its AI ...

Mercedes’s newest factory companion has four legs and helps keep the plant making Sprinter vans running efficiently. If you’ve ever watched videos of a car factory, you likely know that robots play a ...

Named "Spot," the quadruped robot from developers Boston Dynamics has been on the cutting edge of canine-like robots for several years now. Its newest trick is a triple backflip. While there isn't a ...

Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

Unitree Robotics recently dazzled us with its R1 humanoid robot, and now it’s unveiled something even more astonishing: a super-robust dog-like robot called the A2 Stellar Explorer. In a video ...

Scientists have trained a four-legged robot to play badminton against a human opponent, and it scuttles across the court to play rallies of up to 10 shots. By combining whole-body movements with ...

Watch: Robot dog learns to play badminton – and it's not half bad By Abhimanyu Ghoshal August 26, 2025 ETH Zurich's reinforcement learning-based system enables this four-legged bot to track a ...