Last September roboticist Benjie Holson posted the “Humanoid Olympic Games”: a set of increasingly difficult tests for humanoid robots that he demonstrated himself while dressed in a silver bodysuit.

Most of the time, robots grabbing the headlines boil down to a machine doing one very specific thing in a very controlled lab, followed by a promise that this somehow changes everything. Normally, I ...

No matter how sophisticated they are, robots can often be indecisive and struggle with multi-step chores in the real world.

Aug. 20 (UPI) --A humanoid robot can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each task. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute announced this ...

Robots can now turn plain language into real-world actions using a new framework that ...

Robots are increasingly being used in manufacturing, agriculture and health care. But programming a team of robots to carry ...

Researchers have developed a new learning method for robots called WHIRL, short for In-the-Wild Human Imitating Robot Learning. WHIRL is an efficient algorithm for one-shot visual imitation. It can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and NVIDIA Research researchers have developed a powerful new algorithm that drastically accelerates how robots plan their ...

Teaching is a challenging task, particularly when it comes to robots. Traditionally, instructing a robot on how to execute a new task required the creation a complex piece of code, which the robot ...

It takes years of intense study and a steady hand for humans to perform surgery, but robots might have an easier time picking it up with today's AI technology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University ...

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot may have skipped the inaugural “robot Olympics” in China last week, but that doesn’t mean the engineers behind the machine have been sitting around watching the world ...