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.

The Stanford professor’s work gives autonomous systems new frameworks for tackling complex tasks. Robots and AI agents are ...

Scaling embodied AI has long been bottlenecked by data. Teleoperating real robots is expensive and slow, yielding only a limited number of demonstrations per day. While robot-free data collection ...

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 ...

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social ...

Scientists hope the AI toy could help older people cope with the effects of stress and loneliness as well as be an ...

The quest for agile quadrupedal robots is limited by handcrafted reward design in reinforcement learning. While animal motion capture provides 3D references, its cost prohibits scaling. Video learning ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...

PSYONIC turns its FDA-cleared bionic hand into a data engine, feeding ABB and NVIDIA robots the human dexterity data physical ...