When iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday, it marked the end of an era for one of America’s most beloved robotics companies. The Roomba maker, which had sold over 50 million robots since ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

The Supreme Court on Monday signaled it may be ready to overturn a 90-year-old precedent that limits a president’s power to fire members of independent federal agencies, as the conservative justices ...

A majority of justices on the Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to let President Trump fire a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member without cause, significantly limiting the independence of ...

Robot vacuums can be a huge help, keeping your floors clean regularly without much extra work on your part. Black Friday deals often include some of our favorite robovacs, and this year is shaping up ...

In November 2025, social media users (archived) began posting screenshots (archived) of an email purportedly from PayPal (archived) about money they had apparently received from an "FTC Prime ...

Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don’t violate US antitrust law, a blow to the federal ...

Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Meta as it fought a Federal Trade Commission antitrust challenge of its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. In a lengthy ruling, U.S. District Judge ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

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Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging it misled customers into paying for Prime subscriptions, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Thursday. The announcement came ...