Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Imagine a world where robots clean your home, beaches, and even public spaces. We're already well on our way there, but a new self-learning robotic arm developed by researchers at TU Wien in Austria ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of new tools for developers working on artificial intelligence-enabled robots, including humanoids, that enable faster development cycles using simulation, ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

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 ...

A complete pipeline that can run on a single workstation to train a humanoid robot to walk over rough terrain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a ...

In today's manufacturing environments, upgrading a robot fleet often means starting from scratch—not only replacing hardware, ...

I'm not sure I want robots to be able to mimic humans like this.