Last year, researchers found that when kids met a robot in the mall, they would often try to beat it up. Last week, at a shopping center in the Bay Area, the opposite happened: a security robot took ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The parents of a young boy who got knocked down and run over by a security robot at Stanford Shopping Center want to get the word out to prevent others from getting hurt. They ...

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger in a tournament that ended Thursday. According to Baza, the robot “squeezed” the kid’s finger, but it’s possible that’s a ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A young boy was knocked down and run over by a security robot in Palo Alto, according to his parents. The parents of 16-month-old Harwin Cheng said the boy had a frightening ...

A child has had his finger broken by a robot during a chess tournament, and the moment was captured on video. The 7-year-old boy that has yet to be named, was participating in a chess tournament in ...

The Moxie AI robot cost $800 and was marketed to parents to help teach children social skills. The company sent customers an email in late November announcing it would be shutting down. Parents of ...

Less “checkmate,” more “check your finger to see if it’s still intact, buddy.” A robot chess player went outside the usual rules of the game recently when it made a move that shocked onlookers and ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. A chess robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy playing in a tournament in Russia, according to reports ...

A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match at the Moscow Chess Open last week. Footage of the incident shows the robot, with its large mechanical arm, playing three simultaneous ...