Makeblock’s mBot is an excellent toy for young programmers looking to challenge their knowledge and electronics skill in practical application. The small robot takes about 15 minutes to build using an ...

If you've ever wished you could outsource tasks like laundry, dishes, or assembling an IKEA bookshelf — well, Elon Musk ...

Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a self-learning robot to mimic humans to complete simple tasks like cleaning ...

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 ...

Engineers have built robots that are capable of learning new skills by watching videos of humans performing them. A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) developed a model that allowed robots to ...

Teaching robots human-like movements requires significant trial and error. Most robots need to be shown the same action ...

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 ...

Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to programming -- they’ll need to ...

Figure's Brett Adcock claimed a "ChatGPT moment" for humanoid robotics on the weekend. Now, we know what he means: the robot can now watch humans doing tasks, build its own understanding of how to do ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...