A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data. Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new ...

Real-world AI for robots is hard and expensive to create. Or is it? Researchers at a UK university just showed us how to teach robots like humans ...

Roboticists have struggled to get humanoid robots to effectively replicate athletic sports skills, such as those needed for tennis. These sports require highly dynamic motion, quick reactions, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at MIT created an AI-powered simulator capable of generating limitless, realistic training data for robots. The system ...

A new methodology is helping robots to move its arms autonomously. Researchers combined a type of observational learning with intercommunication between its limbs to boost robots’ flexibility. This ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming every behavior by hand, modern robots are increasingly expected to learn ...

2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics. There’s a lot of excitement swirling around the potential for various applications, ...

In context: Teaching robots new skills has traditionally been slow and painstaking, requiring hours of step-by-step demonstrations for even the simplest tasks. If a robot encountered something ...

What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements to handle ...

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...