Professor Brenna Argall talks about the importance of her Northwestern course and how her students will be able to implement the lessons they learn. When Professor Brenna Argall talks about the ...

Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that ...

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled ...

Robots are everywhere, from the assembly line of major factories to the vacuums cleaning the living room carpet. As big tech companies continue to innovate, they are only becoming increasingly woven ...

Nvidia and Cadence Design Systems have expanded their partnership to merge high-fidelity physics simulations with advanced AI training for robotics. By combining Cadence’s multiphysics engines with ...

The robots are coming! At least, that’s what Nvidia is hoping for, with the technology company revealing a new AI system that can improve the functionality of humanoid robots. At this point, what ...

A robot called Bina48 has successfully taken a course in the philosophy of love at Notre Dame de Namur University, in California. According to course instructor William Barry, associate professor of ...

A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did this by ...

Just in time for ski-flying season, researchers have given a robotic quadrocopter the tool it needs to teach itself how to soar through a slalom course. The tool is a learning algorithm. Each time the ...