Blue Line Extension's $2.6M public engagement spending, including a dancing robot, sparks criticism amid scrutiny of the $3.2B project.

For roughly the same price as a flagship smartphone, you could instead buy an affordable humanoid robot that's meant for consumer and educational use. Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based startup, revealed its Bumi robot that's priced at nearly 10,000 yuan, or around $1,400.

It turns out you can teach a robot how to do the moonwalk and the Macarena. With a backdrop of pop music and Python code, Litchfield Middle School eighth graders set the wheels — and mechanical arms — in motion for a robot dance recital last week in a ...