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 suited for tackling many tasks that are currently performed by human agents.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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