Cooking has always been romanticized as therapy, tradition, and soul food. Reality, however, involves burnt onions, inconsistent salt levels, oil splatter ...

Common Sense Media recommended that parents engage with their children directly and guide them towards more traditional ...

This is the latest consumer bot, the inheritor of a long history of Japanese robots whose purpose is to improve mental health ...

On Jan. 29, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it would be retiring GPT-4o (along with the models GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) on Feb. 13. OpenAI says it made this decision because the ...

Talking to a bot can feel meaningful without being pathological. This article explains why context, use, and vulnerability matter.

OpenMind, a robotics software company, has launched a new robot app store designed to let humanoid and quadruped robots gain new skills and abilities. The platform is live now and aims to eventually ...

Researchers from the University of Twente, MST and Politecnico di Milano conducted a pilot study to explore whether a ...

It's been 24 years since CNET first published an article with the headline "The robots are coming." It's a phrase I've repeated in my own writing over the years -- mostly in jest. But now in 2026, for ...

As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to ...

Common Sense Media urged parents not to give the toys to children 5 and younger, and to exercise “extreme caution” with those ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are one of the most urgent health challenges of our time, affecting people, animals, and the ...