Despite billions of dollars in investment, startups say their androids can only perform simple tasks.

Abstract: Robots can often learn skills from human demonstrations. Robot operations via visual perception are commonly influenced by the external environment and are relatively demanding in terms of ...

Abstract: Understanding human intention plays a crucial role in the research of human-robot interaction (HRI) for service robots. Although multimodal sensing methods have shown promising results in ...

From Pluribus to The Handmaid's Tale, these incredible and unsettling dystopian thriller TV shows prove that humans are often their own worst enemies.

Designed for public-facing roles, Noetix’s Hobbs W1 combines a “female-styled” lifelike bionic head and interactive display ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

Real-time high-quality retargeting, unlock the potential of real-time whole-body teleoperation, i.e., TWIST. Carefully tuned for good performance of RL tracking policies. Support multiple humanoid ...

IRON doesn’t try to be strong. It tries to be human. That’s the real leap.XPENG/YT We have all heard about the robot that had to be cut to confirm that there was no human inside. When XPENG unveiled ...

There’s never a shortage of cleaning to do once the holidays roll around, as people visit and pine needles appear out of thin air. Black Friday has at least made one part easier this year, with iRobot ...

Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's platform ChatGPT, are now widely used to tackle a wide range of tasks, ranging from sourcing information to the ...