Robots? Learning from YouTube videos? We sure hope they don't check out any of the thousands of (possibly fake) prank videos on the giant video site; or, worse, that Chocolate Rain guy. The last thing ...

Scientists have been toying around with something called “deep learning” (a massive, internet-based robot brain) for a while now. But a newly published paper details the latest advancement in the ...

Robots are learning to pour and mix ingredients and flip burgers by watching cooking videos on YouTube. A research team from National ICT Australia and the University of Maryland in the US is giving ...

YouTube tutorials aren’t just helpful to humans. A team from the University of Maryland and Australian research center NICTA has published a paper in which it used YouTube videos to teach robots how ...

When it comes to learning how to cook, it turns out that robots may not be so different from humans after all... or are they? Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Move over, Gordon Ramsay. There’s a new MasterChef in town. Researchers at the University of Cambridge and appliance manufacturer Beko have teamed up to create a robotic chef that can cook up a ...

Cooking, they say, is as much an art as a science, so it's no surprise that robots have a difficult time in the kitchen. Perhaps one day robot chefs will be as commonplace as blenders, but they will ...

Dieter Fox thinks cobots, a portmanteau for "collaborative robots," will be a fixture of our future. These bots will operate alongside people, acting as our coworkers, companions, and caretakers. Fox ...

Hold on to your hats, cooks. Researchers at the University of Maryland and a group of Austrian researchers teamed up to teach robots how to cook with YouTube cooking videos. The Robots learned how to ...

Using the power of technology to pick up a new skill is really nothing new. How many times have you needed to look up how to tie a tie or how to write a check, because no one teaches this stuff IRL ...

RoboHow, a European research project that began back in February 2012, is attempting to teach humanoid robots how to perform mundane everyday tasks. This includes activities performed in living ...