Why it matters: Ever since Boston Dynamics first showcased its famous legged robots in 2013, numerous organizations have introduced machines that autonomously perform various professional and ...

A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just about ...

Like many college students, Jackal is still learning to make his own way in life. The little rover is part of a project at the University of Texas' Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory, teaching ...

A technician uses two joysticks to teleoperate small robotic arms that fold T-shirts. Larger robots shuffle pantry goods between boxes. Another worker tests a wrist-mounted pincer fitted with a webcam ...

Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining. The system ...

The ReWiND method, which consists of three phases: learning a reward function, pre-training, and using the reward function ...

Aniket Bera’s lab works with applications that include virtual therapy, autonomous vehicles and rescue bots like this robot dog, marrying the hardware of robots with the software of artificial ...

Milagrow aims to position humanoid robots as companions, collaborators, and problem-solvers across homes, classrooms, ...

When it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre double-armed machine that made a guest appearance in Sweden last fall when it played cello ...