A storm system dumping rain on California left streets flooded earlier this week, and it proved to be too much for a food-delivery robot, which was trying its very best to get the job done. A funny ...

Siri has all the right answers and then some. Robots have no trouble tackling straight forward questions, but the more esoteric or punnier queries can trip them up because, well, they're not human.

Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in a 3-on-3 soccer match in Beijing in June. The match was a robotic fiasco that was guided – or misguided – by artificial intelligence. The game was touted as ...