Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. John Mulaney’s somewhat-intentionally chaotic pop-up talk show, which ran live for six nights in ...

Inside the robotics laboratory of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of robots are busy cooking. There is nothing special about that; robotic chefs have been ...

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. Researchers who study how people react to robot personalities, however, haven't focused on this much — though one study recently found that neurotic ...