Overview AI robots need both real-world and synthetic data to learn effectively, with tools like simulation and teleoperation ...

Robots have long been the backbone of manufacturing—welding car frames, assembling electronics and executing repetitive tasks with machine-like precision. But outside the structured walls of factories ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The door opens to reveal furious activity ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

Xiaomi is best known for smartphones, smart home gear, and the occasional electric vehicle update. Now it wants a place in robotics research too. The company has announced Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an ...

Pokémon Go's vast player-submitted image data is now powering real-world robotics. Niantic Spatial converts these billions of ground-level images into a photorealistic street-level model, enabling ...