Robots often misjudge space making tasks tricky. A new training dataset teaches them to see, reason, and act like humans.

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

Teaching a robot how to do something is usually done by either programming it to perform a specific task, or demonstrating that task for the robot to observe and imitate. The latter method, however, ...

A pair of swivelling, human-like robotic arms, built for physical artificial intelligence research, mirror the motions of an ...

Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

A new approach could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly generating an accurate ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while ...

There are two ways to teach a robot to do something: Demonstrate the task and make it replicate it, or program the task directly into its software. The first method usually means the robot is limited ...

For all the talk about whether robots will take our jobs, a new worry is emerging, namely whether we should let robots teach our kids. As the capabilities of smart software and artificial intelligence ...

Controlled remotely by English teachers in the Philippines, the 29 robots wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them, and dancing to music by moving their head ...

Okay, this story is Tom bait. As regular readers of this Blog know, I am all about the coming robot revolution. Why am I all about it? Because it’s coming and we’re not getting ready. Smart, dexterous ...

Education technology has many faces. A prominent one has long been computer-assisted language learning, offering great promise for struggling readers, non-English speakers, or those seeking to master ...