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Researchers at IIT Bombay and Southern Methodist University are using classical dance form Bharatanatyam to robots more like ...

By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is how it managed to learn 1,000 tasks in under 24 hours, with just one demo ...

Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining. The system ...

Why it matters: Ever since Boston Dynamics first showcased its famous legged robots in 2013, numerous organizations have introduced machines that autonomously perform various professional and ...

But that all might change now, the Post says, since researchers have successfully trained state of the art of robot surgeons with next-generation technology, using videos of procedures, so that ...

Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just about ...

Researchers at DARPA are seeking to create smoother relations between robotic systems and humans, and because nothing enhances communication like good manners, they’re developing a kind of “finishing ...

Iman Soltani is developing active vision technology that would allow robots to change their line of sight and viewpoint to complete tasks instead of relying on multiple cameras. Here, Soltani (left) ...

We’re fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World’s Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th ...

From disaster zones to underground tunnels, robots are increasingly being sent where humans cannot safely go. But many of ...

“First, they learned to learn,” may sound like the clichéd opening line of a movie on some fictional robot uprising, but in an inevitable twist of fate, researchers from Washington State University’s ...