Standard Bots is building and training robots to think for themselves with artificial intelligence — and it could bring more manufacturing to the US in the process. The Long Island-based company is early to apply AI to robotics and one of the first to do ...

Cornell University researchers have introduced a new AI-powered framework that makes robots better at learning tasks. It’s called RHyME, which stands for Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution. The idea is simple but powerful: instead ...

One of the biggest hurdles in developing humanoid robots is the sheer amount of training data required. Teaching machines to act like humans demands massive video datasets. Collecting that data is expensive, time-consuming and difficult to scale.

A training session involving Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot has gone viral for all the wrong—and funny—reasons. The clip, first uploaded to China’s Bilibili on December 25, shows a human trainer controlling the G1 using a motion-capture suit.

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with scientists Feifei Qian and Ryan Ewing of the LASSIE Project. It is training a robot dog to navigate different types of terrain in preparation for future space missions. A dog named Spirit has been exploring the rocks and snow ...

Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind today unveiled a trio of new advances that it says will help robots make better, faster and safer decisions in the wild. The advances, which include new training systems for artificial ...

Robots doing feats of acrobatics might be a great marketing trick, but typically these displays are highly choreographed and painstakingly programmed. Now researchers have trained a four-legged AI robot to tackle complex, previously unseen obstacle courses ...

And importantly, the bot can be set to different paces and return speeds, depending on how much of a workout the player wishes. After each session, the app provides the user with a detailed assessment of their performance, complete with robot-shot video. Assuming the Acemate reaches production, a pledge of US$1,599 will get you one. The planned retail price is $2,329. You can see it in action ...

On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world. Researchers also plan ...