A new approach could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly generating an accurate ...

AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.

Teaching a robot how to do something is usually done by either programming it to perform a specific task, or demonstrating that task for the robot to observe and imitate. The latter method, however, ...

Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

Future-predicting robots are all the rage this year in machine learning circles, but today’s deep learning techniques can only take the research so far. That’s why some ambitious AI developers are ...

What does a robotics company have to do with animal welfare? Plenty, according to the Scottish SPCA, an animal welfare organization that, as part of its mandate, runs a program called Prevention ...

It’s been suggested that an advance party of robots will be needed if humans are ever to settle on other planets. Sent ahead to create conditions favorable for humankind, these robots will need to be ...

Politeness doesn’t really amount to much when you’re programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely ...

Controlled remotely by English teachers in the Philippines, the 29 robots wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them, and dancing to music by moving their head ...

There are two ways to teach a robot to do something: Demonstrate the task and make it replicate it, or program the task directly into its software. The first method usually means the robot is limited ...