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 ...

THESE DROIDS HOW TO FUNCTION. RIGHT NOW, WE ARE STEPPING BACK INTO THE FUTURE WITH A RARE LOOK INSIDE THE ROBOTICS INSTITUTE AT CMU. THE WORK BEING INVENTED RIGHT HERE IN PITTSBURGH WILL HAVE A MAJOR ...

When it comes to training robots to perform agile, single-task motor skills, such as handstands or backflips, artificial intelligence methods can be very useful. But if you want to train your robot to ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

ChatGPT and other AI tools are upending our digital lives, but our AI interactions are about to get physical. Humanoid robots trained with a particular type of AI to sense and react to their world ...

On a hot morning this past summer, a sleepy John Crerar Library starts to rouse as Chicago Public Schools rising seniors arrived for a college-level robot programming course on the University of ...

TL;DR: FigureAI has developed an AI-powered walking controller for its Figure 02 humanoid robot, enhancing its movement to be more human-like with features such as heel strikes and synchronized arm ...

As someone who quite enjoys the Zen of tidying up, I was only too happy to grab a dustpan and brush and sweep up some beans spilled on a tabletop while visiting the Toyota Research Lab in Cambridge, ...

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