Billionaire Masayoshi Son wants to create Android for robots. A unit of Son's SoftBank Corp. has unveiled an operating system that purports to offer a way to control robots just as Google Inc.'s ...

I expect that many more disaster response robots will be developed in the future, and they will play a crucial role in saving lives when disasters occur.

The company recently raised USD 15 million in seed funding, backed by prominent investors including Jeff Dean, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, and NVIDIA OpenMind, a robotics software startup ...

The yellow, four-legged robot walks up a grass slope, then marches through a forest full of twigs. It even mounts a stump and then climbs down unassisted. It’s part of a trial run by Forestry and ...