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 ...

Intrinsic motivation, a concept drawn from behavioural science, has gained significant traction in robotic research as a means to stimulate exploratory behaviour in the absence of explicit external ...

There’s a fun way to learn robotics. The SunFounder PiDog Kit lets you build and program your own robot dog that can do tricks, learn commands, and do so much more. It sounds expensive, but this ...

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 ...

Inside the robotics laboratory of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of robots are busy cooking. There is nothing special about that; robotic chefs have been ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan shows that feeding a robot fabricated or augmented data when no data sets were available increases the ability of that robot’s performance by ...

The race to build the world’s first functional humanoid robots is no longer just a contest of hardware. It’s a high-stakes battle over two radically different philosophies of development, the crux of ...

Robotics and deep learning are progressively reshaping agricultural automation by introducing precision, efficiency and adaptability to traditional farming practices. Advanced robotic systems, ...

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second ...

Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a self-learning robot to mimic humans to complete simple tasks like cleaning ...

(Nanowerk News) Steep sections on slippery ground, high steps, scree and forest trails full of roots: the path up the 1,098- metre-high Mount Etzel at the southern end of Lake Zurich is peppered with ...