Humanoid robots struggle with new tasks. A new approach could help them handle objects reliably in homes, factories, and ...

Robotic systems that mirror humans both in their appearance and movements, also known as humanoid robots, could be best ...

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 ...

Researchers found that preschoolers prefer learning from what they perceive as a competent robot over an incompetent human. This study is the first to use both a human speaker and a robot to see if ...

Inspired by nature, researchers have developed a new framework using a geometric property called "curvity" to improve robot swarm coordination. This parameter, indicating how a robot curves under ...

Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today open-sourced a new robotics framework called PyRobot. Developed alongside researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, PyRobot is meant to ...

A Unitree G1, nicknamed “Little Potato”, has landed a clean three-step layup, a notable leap in humanoid robot athleticism.

A four-legged robot took only an hour to learn how to walk without stumbling, roughly the same amount of time as newborn foals need. Felix Ruppert and Alexander Badri-Sprowitz at the Max Planck ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

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