A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...

By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

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 ...

For years, robots have relied on pre-programmed instructions and complex simulations to function. But now, scientists have developed self-aware robots that can learn and adapt in real time, just like ...

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...

The new model from Google DeepMind is a huge step toward robots that can generalize. Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers. A well-known example is ...