A new system helps robots navigate homes they’ve never seen before with a little help from open-source AI models. Robots are good at certain tasks. They’re great at picking up and moving objects, for ...

Forget AI that can draw pictures, Google’s latest AI model can control a robot. On Friday, Google introduced Robotics Transformer 2 (RT2), a vision-language-action (VLA) model that can take text and ...

Google’s new robots don’t need complex instructions now that they can access large language models. Google’s new robots don’t need complex instructions now that they can access large language models.

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind today unveiled a trio of new advances that it says will help robots make better, faster and safer decisions in the wild. The advances, which ...

“WHAT DO YOU see right now?” a man asks a humanoid robot standing behind a table. “I see a red apple on a plate in the centre of the table, a drying rack with cups and a plate, and you standing nearby ...

Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots. By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose is a technology columnist, and co-hosts the Times podcast ...