When I was a kid, the idea of a real-life robot felt foreign. Earth was for humans. The Jetsons and their robot maid, Rosie, existed only on television. Now I work in manufacturing and frequently find ...

The first is called the Geometric-Prior Skill Selector (GSS), which helps the robot decide which of its “tools” and skills is ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

A technician uses two joysticks to teleoperate small robotic arms that fold T-shirts. Larger robots shuffle pantry goods ...

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of ...

Google introduced a new artificial intelligence model that will allow humans to communicate with robots and teach them what to do by putting words into action. The concept of robots as dependable ...

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 ...

NVIDIA, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing, has unveiled an exciting new AI platform called Cosmos. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent ...

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