By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world ...

Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a self-learning robot to mimic humans to complete simple tasks like cleaning ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

From washing urinals to tidying up the beach, we can already see a future where our robot servants help keep our world a little cleaner. Now, a robotic arm has mastered the surprisingly complex task ...

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 ...

Elon Musk believes robots will be “the biggest product ever in history.” His Tesla robot Optimus can already climb stairs and ...

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 ...

Instead of designing a humanoid robot with AI reasoning and neural networks, you can just teach it yourself. Researchers at Stanford University developed a robot that can imitate what you’re doing in ...

(Nanowerk News) By watching their own motions with a camera, robots can teach themselves about the structure of their own bodies and how they move, a new study from researchers at Columbia Engineering ...

Ancient mudras offer a blueprint for smoother robot hand movement and could inspire new approaches to motor training and therapy.

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.