Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks. The tool is known as Code as Policies, or CaP. It ...

What is the Alter3 humanoid robot, how does it work? Alter3 is a humanoid robot that was first introduced in 2016 as a platform for exploring the concept of life in artificial systems. It has a ...

A new two-layer language-model algorithm is helping robots break down tasks, refine actions on the fly, and execute movements ...

One of the more fascinating sights of an autumn evening is the flocking behaviour of starlings as they lurch and swoop in extraordinary demonstrations of aerodynamic synchronisation. It turns out that ...

For a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The ...

Robot learning and language acquisition represent an interdisciplinary endeavour combining robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This field studies how autonomous systems can ...

Driven by technological innovations, increasing applications, falling prices and greater adoption of factory automation, the use of robots is ballooning globally. From just 2013 to 2017, the number of ...

Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, ...