In what might be one of the most underappreciated technological breakthroughs of our time, Alphabet's Google DeepMind has accomplished something deceptively difficult -- teaching a robot to tie ...

Casually having a conversation with a robot butler might not be as far out as we thought. Figure, an AI robotics company that’s attracted the financial backing of Microsoft and Nvidia, showed off why ...

The robot was able to sew six stitches all on its own—and has lessons for robotics as a whole. An AI-trained surgical robot that can make a few stitches on its own is a small step toward systems that ...

A swarm of small, wiggling robots that communicate by flashing lights at each other can make collective decisions. This is similar to the process bees use to reach consensus on where to build their ...

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Some things come easy to humans but are vexing problems for machines. You can probably stack groceries in a trunk or set a table with little trouble, but a robot stumbles over the numerous constraints ...