Founder: Sasha Jokic shows off one of Cosmic’s robots at a Pacific Palisades site. (Photo by David Sprague) We’ve all heard of “Bob the Builder,” but one California company has come up with a ...

Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they're machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated by humans, but sometimes work autonomously—without human help.

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 ...