ChatGPT and other AI tools are upending our digital lives, but our AI interactions are about to get physical. Humanoid robots trained with a particular type of AI to sense and react to their world ...

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine's Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled ...

In context: Teaching robots new skills has traditionally been slow and painstaking, requiring hours of step-by-step demonstrations for even the simplest tasks. If a robot encountered something ...

The digital laboratory (dLab) system fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Tokyo ...

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 ...

Despite rapid advances in artificial intelligence, robots remain stubbornly dumb. But new research from DeepMind suggests the same technology behind large language models (LLMs) could help create more ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

It doesn’t bark. It doesn’t shed. It doesn’t even have a head. Meet Spot, UB’s newest gadget. The robot dog, made by Boston Dynamics, arrived on campus earlier this summer. Since then, it has been ...

The low-power robotics system LENS merges a brainlike sensor, a chip and an AI model This hexapod robot recognizes its surroundings using a vision system that occupies less storage space than a single ...