Comment The maker of Moxie, an "AI"-powered educational robot for kids, is going out of business – and the $800 bots will die with it.… Embodied Inc. made the Moxie Robot, which is a cloud ...

Moxie, a playful robot that first got attention for helping kids with loneliness and anxiety through the COVID-19 pandemic, is getting an AI upgrade and picking up some tutoring skills.

What can Miko Mini do? So what does the robot actually do? First and foremost, Miko Mini is an LLM-powered AI companion that’s tailored for safe and engaging conversations with kids.

Musk said the bots can “basically do anything you want” – like mowing your lawn, cleaning the kitchen after dinner, babysitting your kids or just being a friend — and will cost less than a ...

During Tesla’s “We, Robot” event last week, which TechCrunch covered late into the night, sources on the ground sent me a handful of videos of the automaker’s Optimus humanoid robots ...

A new iteration of the Optimus robot was unveiled at Tesla's We, Robot event, where Elon Musk said it would eventually walk the dog.

My robot therapist: The ethics of AI mental health chatbots for kids Date: March 31, 2025 Source: University of Rochester Medical Center Summary: AI mental health apps may offer a cheap and ...

Is it mere coincidence or already a new trend? Animated films about the unlikely friendships between robots and animals are thriving. Earlier this year, Pablo Berger's heart-warming retro tale Robot ...

The fear is that an over-reliance on “robot therapists” could impair kids’ social skills or create confusion between real and artificial empathy.