Double Robotics' Double wants to get your iPad out of the house and into the office, or classroom, or factory floor —anywhere, really. The $2,499 telepresence robot uses a pair of iPads: one sits in ...

Today’s exciting modern technology comes with plenty of old-fashioned hand-wringing. Kids don’t play outside anymore! Texting has replaced talking! You can’t sit through a civilized dinner without ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) – Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley. But Goecker isn’t in ...

In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to ...