POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in plastic containers, the sort ...

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Vacuuming is one of those daily chores that can be a pain in the neck (and back, depending on how often you have to stoop and stretch to reach hard-to-access areas). But as robot vacuums get smarter ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

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