General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can move around in their ...

After building a career as a serial entrepreneur and conducting early AI research at Stanford, Saxena now builds foundational models for physics.

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 ...

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...

A new algorithm has been designed to enable robots to make safer decisions around humans. In a factory setting, robots and humans can form strong teams. The robot handles repetitive tasks like ...

Looking for a home humanoid robot that will clean your house, cook your food, and maybe even take the dog for a walk? It just got one step closer ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

An IEEE senior member discusses the results of the organization's global study on the potential impact of AI robotics.

AlphaBot 2 wants to beat humans at their own game. When the robot is asked if it wants to play dice, it can interpret the question and jump into action – pressing the button on an automatic dice ...