If you’ve seen a robot vacuum at work, you’ve probably stared at it as it trundles around a room, gobbling up crumbs and dirt, dodging (or bumping into) every chair leg and stray sock you’ve got on ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Covariant, a robotics start-up, is designing technology that lets robots learn skills much like chatbots do. By combining camera and sensory data with the enormous amounts of text used to train ...