Calder McHugh is deputy editor of POLITICO Nightly.

Robots are increasingly being used in security and surveillance applications. Primarily used in public areas in spaces where privacy is not expected, they have been steadily making their way into the ...

From lowering labor costs to keeping employees safe and happy, “cobots” have many advantages. Labor costs are a perpetual challenge for restaurant operators. Recruiting, hiring, training, and ...

The adult world is ever more full of robots. Children’s entertainment feels as if it’s working hard to make them seem adorable. By Diego Hadis One near certainty about raising a young child these days ...

With labor shortages affecting the utility-scale solar segment, some companies are presenting so-called robot “super workers” as a solution. California-based startup RoboForce aims to eventually ...

The possibility that robots might one day run our lives has long been a fantasy and a fear. As a forward-looking tech-obsessed city, it should be no surprise that we’re right in the middle of ...

If you want a picture of the future of work, maybe it’s this: a cat-like cartoon displayed on an iPad-like screen perched on a vertical aluminum or plastic frame on wheels, rolling right up to your ...

Is a robot shoveling your snow? I once knew the answer to this question. For anyone who was raised in the '70s and never had a date in the '80s or who thought the 2000s would look like a cross between ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...