Or get robots to do the hard work for us. Borobotics, a startup from Switzerland, has developed an autonomous drilling machine — dubbed the “world’s most powerful worm” — that promises ...

simple triple Delta scooting around the floor, supported by wire training wheels below. It makes a good cat toy, but we’d love to see a bipedal robot with this style of legs.

Robot vacuums and mops were definitely the stars of the show, mainly due to the insane advancements that they’re getting, including retractable arms and legs, and the ability to climb up the ...

Yes, this robot vacuum now has small appendages that you can call ‘legs’ – several inches long, that allow the floor-standing unit to lift itself a little up off of ground level. I watched ...

I’ll see your arm and raise you an arm and two legs. It was the battle of the bots on the CES show floor as robot vacuum manufacturers Dreame and Roborock each added limbs to their rival robovacs.

Compared to a human, the action does seem awkward and almost child-like, but it uses a combination of its legs and arms to lie down on the floor gently. The next part of the video shows the robot ...

5, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) In this Nov. 4, 2010 photo, Ajak Kuol Nyamchiek, 7, watches while John Lotiki, a nurse with the Carter Center, bandages the blister on her leg from where a ...

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