Traditional safety protocols weren’t designed for self-improving systems, which raises important questions about validation, ...

(Nanowerk News) By watching their own motions with a camera, robots can teach themselves about the structure of their own bodies and how they move, a new study from researchers at Columbia Engineering ...

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 this blog, Everest Group’s Peter Bendor-Samuel and Richard Sear combine their perspectives from years of advising enterprises and analyzing emerging technologies. Together, they explore how ...

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 ...

Whether they are designing robots, solving problems or teaching others, Kirtland students are learning a range of skills in the school district’s FIRST programs. Students on the district’s FIRST Lego ...

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.

New work has enabled robots to learn household chores by watching videos of people performing everyday tasks in their homes. Vision-Robotics Bridge, or VRB for short, uses the concept of affordances ...

From washing urinals to tidying up the beach, we can already see a future where our robot servants help keep our world a little cleaner. Now, a robotic arm has mastered the surprisingly complex task ...

A new algorithm developed by USC computer science researchers shows that robots can, in computer simulations, learn tasks after a single demonstration Aging populations and caregivers stand to benefit ...