This robot knows how to shape alphabet letters by using kid-friendly clay, Play-Doh, without any human assistance, all thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers it. As kids, most of us, ...

All these modern-day kids have iPad and iPod touch apps to learn the alphabet. My kindergarten class had a box of these Alphabet Robots for our grimey, snot-ridden hands to play with. With just one or ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. What does Google’s ...

The news: Alphabet X, the company’s early research and development division, has unveiled the Everyday Robot project, whose aim is to develop a “general-purpose learning robot.” The idea is to equip ...

Is my robot servant here yet? Our dream of robot companions may be a bit far-fetched and a long ways off, but robotics are definitely evolving as we get close to an automated world. Google is ...

During a recent visit to Alphabet’s X lab, I drained my coffee and left the compostable cup on a tray marked “Cans & Bottles.” The transgression was soon mended. Twenty minutes later, a wheeled, ...

A Japanese conglomerate is scooping up Boston Dynamics, the robotics firm behind many online videos that feature amazing yet somewhat creepy automatons. On Friday, SoftBank said it has struck a deal ...