China has turned a science fiction trope into industrial policy, opening a dedicated “robot school” where humanoid machines ...

With two published sequels ready and waiting, DreamWorks Animation has a franchise in the works with “The Wild Robot,” a big success in its first weekend. It’s good, too. Based on the first of three ...

In a remarkable demonstration of open-source innovation, a team has developed a cheap cleaning robot to complete a set of actions. A pair of roboticists at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich successfully ...

The robots are coming! At least, that’s what Nvidia is hoping for, with the technology company revealing a new AI system that can improve the functionality of humanoid robots. At this point, what ...

NASA has some really wild plans, and I mean that in the best way possible. Despite facing some massive delays for its upcoming Artemis missions, which will see humanity return to the Moon for the ...

Robotics startup 1X Technologies has developed a new generative model that can make it much more efficient to train robotics systems in simulation. The model, which the company announced in a new blog ...

Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations. For all the recent advances in the field, humanoid robots, they say, have been overhyped and face daunting technical challenges ...

An AI has been used to train a small robot dog to perform cleaning tasks. The hardware cost a total of $6300, which is less than a tenth of the price tag of the well-known robot dogs built by US tech ...

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A new handheld interface developed by MIT engineers enables a person to teach a robot new skills, using any of three training approaches: natural teaching (top left), kinesthetic training (middle), ...