Piaggio claims the robot offers a stylish alternative to those blandly utilitarian machines - albeit one that weighs 50 pounds (23 kilograms) and costs $3,250 (£2,500).

If the robots ever actually do rise up and take our jobs, we may only have ourselves to blame — at least those of us who share information about how to perform specific human tasks online. Meet ...

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The San Francisco-based robotics company built a countertop robot called xPizza Cube, which is roughly the size of a stackable washing machine and uses machine learning to apply sauce, cheese, and ...

Your next Friday night pizza may be made by robot hands. That’s the vision of Ajay Sunkara, who launched the Pizzaiola autonomous chef, an A.I.-driven, voice-controlled pizza maker that’s ...

In a restaurant in Harbin, China, for example, 20 life-size robots cook and serve meals. In Austin, Tex., the Briggo company has installed a robotic barista that grinds and brews coffees to ...

The futuristic machines have a limited vocabulary and take two hours to charge enough to complete a five hour shift but give an insight into how far robot technology has come.