A male robot driven by artificial intelligence appeared to grope a female reporter during an interview at a high-profile tech expo in Saudi Arabia last month. Al Arabiya journalist Rawya Kassem was ...

The logline “man meets robot” evokes a litany of famous android romances — “Her,” “Stepford Wives” and “Bladerunner” among them — but, curiously, there are nowhere near enough featuring male robots.

Enough with the vacuum cleaners. iRobot hopes a robot with an Android tablet for a head will catalyze the market for robot butlers and waiters and showed a prototype at Google I/O. Stephen Shankland ...