I am convinced that this giant robot, from the 1957 movie Kronos: Ravager of Planets, is perhaps the very best of the abstract giant robots. And by “abstract,” I mean Kronos here looks basically like ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Brown University and MIT have developed a method for helping robots plan for multi-step tasks by constructing abstract representations of the world around them. Their ...

As Covid-19 infection rates continue to surge in the United States and across the planet, social distancing remains one of humanity’s core precautions, albeit a more difficult one to keep up through ...

One of the most significant insights from the study is that roboticists must engage both technically and physically with ...

New research shows how robots can autonomously construct abstract representations of their surroundings and use them to plan for multi-step tasks. Researchers from Brown University and MIT have ...