(TNS) — Late in the Douglas VEX Battle on Saturday afternoon, Lilly Schubach made a dash from the Douglas High School gymnasium, where the robotics competition was taking place, to the hallway where ...

"We've had a bit of a breakthrough." Toyota, MIT and Columbia Engineering have shown off wild results from a new AI learning approach that massively accelerates how quickly robots can acquire new ...

Robots are everywhere, from the assembly line of major factories to the vacuums cleaning the living room carpet. As big tech companies continue to innovate, they are only becoming increasingly woven ...

STEM learning can be challenging, but educational robotics offers students an opportunity for a hands-on, guided problem solving learning experience Engineering is a critical part of STEM education, ...

Standing amid hundreds of people in the rotunda of Chicago's iconic Museum of Science and Industry, Ritika Ghosh (MSR '23) felt her confidence building. Ghosh was teaching people of all ages about a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and automation tools need resources, data and humans in the loop to make them the robust wells of knowledge they are today. For autonomous vehicles to recognize ...

In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments.

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

As robot technologies continue to improve and evolve, the choices facing today's robotics buyers continue to expand as well. How do you know what type of robot to choose? And more importantly, how can ...