General-purpose robots will need to be useful enough and offered at a good price point to justify a purchase, industry leaders say.

Meet Willow Garage, the developers of an open source robot that will hand you a beer and then clean your kitchen and living room.

We covered quite a few personal assistant robots from Japan in the past, but none of them were labeled as "personal porters". But now Professor Gen Endo from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has ...

Who wouldn’t want a robot that can fetch them a glass of water? [Saral Tayal] didn’t just think that, he jumped right in and built his own personal assistant robot. This isn’t just some ...

A new robot project has been published to the Instructables Circuits website which is equipped with machine learning technology allowing it to see the ...

We've seen free-moving assistant robots in the past, and here to challenge them all is the Personal Robot.

Developer and maker Sanjeet has been building and developing the R3-14 personal robot assistant for over two years and has used a variety of readily available subsystems. For example Sanjeet has ...

A Silicon Valley start-up named Willow Garage, backed by early Google employee, is the latest company trying to make personal-assistant robots. It was started by eGroups founder and Google ...

Personal assistant The new personal robot has a wide array of capabilities. It can recognize faces and expressions, or recognize objects around the house and navigate around them automatically.

Robotbase's personal assistant bot. Robotbase A few companies have already previewed prototypes of automated personal assistants.

While many fear robots might one day take over the human race, Elon Musk is one of the billionaires aiming to lead us into a new tech-driven era. He unveiled the Optimus "personal assistant" robot ...