When the streets of Los Angeles flooded with rain last week, some of the city’s residents found themselves feeling sorry for a peculiar object: a food delivery robot floundering in water and debris.

Walk into a tech expo, scroll through a product launch, or watch a future of AI video and you’ll notice a pattern: many robots are designed to look friendly. They have rounded edges, big eyes, soft ...

Robots with reindeer antlers are now on the road delivering food for Uber Eats. The suspiciously-cute boxes on wheels will be packed with pad thai, smash burgers and wraps, and sent out to addresses ...