Researchers working on multiple projects in Europe and the United States are using cloud computing to teach robotic systems to perform a multitude of tasks ranging from household chores to serving ...

Engineers have built robots that are capable of learning new skills by watching videos of humans performing them. A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) developed a model that allowed robots to ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ecological monitoring in unexplored places and more, say University of ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

A new system called TactileAloha blends vision with touch, boosting robot dexterity by 11% in tricky tasks like fastening ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...

Inspired by nature, researchers have developed a new framework using a geometric property called \"curvity\" to improve robot ...

UChicago study finds social robots could help students feel less stress when reading aloud, pointing to new uses for ...