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 ...

Scientists have created a robot that can learn tasks like cleaning a washbasin just by watching humans. A special sponge with sensors is used to show the robot how to clean. Using an advanced machine ...

AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.

The researchers detailed their findings in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. "Like humans learning to dance by ...

Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just about ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

THESE DROIDS HOW TO FUNCTION. RIGHT NOW, WE ARE STEPPING BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH A RARE LOOK INSIDE THE ROBOTICS INSTITUTE AT CMU. THE WORK BEING INVENTED RIGHT HERE IN PITTSBURGH WILL HAVE A MAJOR ...

Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are too far away to receive timely commands from Earth.

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 ...

It’s no secret that foundation models have transformed AI in the digital world. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, LLaMA, and Bard revolutionized AI for language. While OpenAI’s GPT models ...