With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Abstract: This paper presents Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning (SPI-DP), a novel first-order optimizer capable of optimizing robot programs with respect to both high-level task ...

Many schools across the U.S. offer robotics through a technical elective or club centered on coding, building, and competition. But in a rapidly evolving economy, more is needed. Robotics, which ...

Robots are reporting for duty in another Southern California suburb. Residents in Whittier may have spotted one of the city’s new “Daxbots” rolling along neighborhood sidewalks. The small, slow‑moving ...

Ethan David, of Roslyn High School, launched a robotics program for students at the Boys & Girls Club, expanding access to STEM education for underserved youth ROSLYN ...

The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.” Melania Trump, the first lady, with Figure 3, a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, an ...

Last week, I attended NVIDIA’s 2026 GTC event in San Jose, Calif. This year, the company expected over 30,000 attendees across the four days of the show. To host everyone, NVIDIA held events across ...

Google's DeepMind division is partnering with Agile Robots to integrate its Gemini Robotics foundation models with Agile Robots’ hardware. The company aims to use the Agile Robot partnership to ...

A new AI system called LATENT helps a humanoid robot react faster on the tennis court by learning from imperfect human motion data.

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps ...