Malicious hackers can take over control of vacuum and lawn mower robots made by Ecovacs to spy on their owners using the devices’ cameras and microphones, new research has found. Security researchers ...

In the recent movie “Robots,” Rodney, an eager robot with inventive dreams, shared his motto, “See a need, fill a need.” It’s a saying that struck Napa resident Melanie Oberting.

Who he is: CTO of Heartland Robotics Inc., which aims to do for manual labor with robotics what the PC did for office work. Track record: Co-founded consumer and military robot maker iRobot Corp. with ...

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