By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...

What if I told you that a robot can make you a cup of coffee just by watching a video of a human doing it? It's almost hard to believe, but it actually happened. Thanks to a breakthrough in artificial ...

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), ...

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world problems. Most of these robots, however, often perform poorly on tasks that they ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

Figure, the creator of the Figure-01 humanoid robot, demonstrated its capacity to autonomously make coffee by learning from a video of a human performing the task, a noteworthy breakthrough in ...

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 ...

It seems like every week there’s a new video of a robot folding clothes. We’ve had some fantastic demonstrations, like this semi-autonomous video from Weave Robotics on X. And besides folding actual ...

Warehouse work is intense, repetitive and physically demanding. Kinisi Robotics, a U.S.-based startup, wants to change that. Its newest innovation, the Kinisi 01, also known as KR1, is a powerful ...

As society continues to embrace technology, human-like robots, known as humanoids, are becoming an integral part of our daily lives.