Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand ...

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

Robots typically excel at structured, repeatable tasks such as welding body panels together for cars or painting those vehicles. They've long struggled with more variable, less-structured work such as ...

A humanoid robot rallies tennis shots with a human player in real time, using AI to track and respond without scripts or ...

Scientists have developed a network of mechanical motors that mimic the molecular machinery underpinning human muscle ...

Researchers in China have developed a new system that significantly improves how humanoid robots ...

Insect-scale legged robots have become increasingly capable in recent years but are still severely limited in terms of onboard resources for computation and power. On the other hand, simple models for ...

Overview AI robots need both real-world and synthetic data to learn effectively, with tools like simulation and teleoperation ...