When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

Walk into a tech expo, scroll through a product launch, or watch a future of AI video and you’ll notice a pattern: many robots are designed to look friendly. They have rounded edges, big eyes, soft ...

We’ve seen our share of deceptively cute robots over the years, but nothing comes close to the grapefruit-sized ball Japan has floating around in space. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...