Moxie the robot wasn’t only for autistic kids, but it was marketed as a great companion and tool for them. The company, Embodied, promised that for about $800, the new toy would use AI and its ...

The backstory is that Moxie is fresh from the robot factory and looking to make friends and better understand the human world. Unlike kids' robots of yesteryear, Moxie has a wide repertoire of skills.

Devices like the Moxie robot offer a sophisticated semblance of sentience, and that’s good enough for most of us. But what about so-called unstructured environments? Enter Kind Humanoid, a Silicon ...