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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New work has enabled robots to learn household chores by watching videos of people performing everyday tasks in their homes. Vision-Robotics Bridge, or VRB for short, uses the concept of affordances ...

Robotics investments were trending in the right direction prior to 2020, but the pandemic dramatically increased investor interest as more firms pushed to automate work. Manufacturing has been ...

In this blog, Everest Group’s Peter Bendor-Samuel and Richard Sear combine their perspectives from years of advising enterprises and analyzing emerging technologies. Together, they explore how ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to researchers at TU Wein in Vienna, the promise of housecleaning robots is one step closer. The team has developed a ...

Researchers have developed a robot that can learn facial lip movements for tasks such as speech and singing. Designed by a team at Columbia Engineering, the humanoid aims to address one of the most ...