Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael ...

As industrial robots begin learning from simulations, digital twins and even one another, automation on the factory floor is entering a new phase. Instead of relying solely on preprogrammed ...

Continual robot learning is an emerging interdisciplinary field that integrates advances from machine learning, robotics, and cognitive science to build ...

As Californian companies race to manufacture and deploy thousands of humanoid robots in the coming year, another new class of ...

China’s robot schools are training humanoids through repetition, VR-guided demonstrations, and shared data to prepare them for real-world work.

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

The race to build the world’s first functional humanoid robots is no longer just a contest of hardware. It’s a high-stakes battle over two radically different philosophies of development, the crux of ...

Imagine a robot that could do your laundry, make your bed, cook your dinner, or stock the dairy section at your local grocery store. Humans have long been able to teach robots how to do individual ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...