As humanoid robots move from labs into homes, stores, and warehouses, a simple question is gaining urgency: who teaches them how to behave around people? Companies are testing machines that can walk, grasp, and talk. Regulators are writing rules as they go.

Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that number to roughly 100, a shift that could reshape how quickly machines adapt in warehouses,

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 robots, despite some specialized ones being capable of ...

Why it matters: Ever since Boston Dynamics first showcased its famous legged robots in 2013, numerous organizations have introduced machines that autonomously perform various professional and recreational activities. The latest research utilizes badminton ...

NVIDIA says its latest general-purpose robot update can teach a humanoid machine using software entirely, bypassing the months of motion capture sessions most rivals still depend on. The chipmaker unveiled “GR00T-Dreams” at the Computex trade show in ...

A Brown University study shows dogs may help robots find objects using gestures and words. Discover how researchers trained machines to understand human signals and why this breakthrough could improve future robots. Brown University researchers showed on ...

We’re fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World’s Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th centuries (there turned out to be a human hiding inside ...

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) and Andrew Lee, a second-year Ph.D. student in computer ...

Machine learning is tough -- it combines high-level math with complex conceptual thinking, requires both a super-sharp analytical mind and the ability to think widely and creatively. The field is so difficult, in fact, that it seems to be subverting some ...

Industrial robot adoption has reached a point of no return. Automated machinery has become an industry standard and will only become increasingly common as time goes on. As this trend continues, engineers must hone in on making this equipment safer to work ...