Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that number to roughly 100, a shift that could reshape how quickly machines ...

Figure, maker of the humanoid robot Figure 02, unveiled its new Helix AI in a video showing two robots working together to put away groceries. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for ...

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To help solve this problem, Generalist has relied on “data hands,” a set of wearable pincers that capture micro-movements and visual information as humans perform manual tasks. Generalist now claims ...

Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence model aimed at pushing robots beyond controlled factory environments. The system, called Rho-alpha, targets one of robotics’ long-standing ...

Humanoid robots are joining space travel, self-driving cars, and virtual assistants as '90s tech wishes that have come true. The concept has been sci-fi fodder for decades — as far back as 1927, in ...

Recent advances in language and vision models have helped make great progress in creating robotic systems that can follow instructions from text descriptions or images. However, there are limits to ...

Robotics startup 1X Technologies has developed a new generative model that can make it much more efficient to train robotics systems in simulation. The model, which the company announced in a new blog ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA and Carnegie Mellon's ASAP AI trains humanoid robots through simulation to replicate real-world movements, overcoming physics challenges to achieve agile motion. NVIDIA and Carnegie ...

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk and ...