With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, researchers showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, named ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks.

Learning may well be the most exciting frontier in the whole of robotics. The field itself dates back decades. The 80s, for instance, brought exciting breakthroughs in learning by demonstration, but a ...

Training robots to execute tasks in the real world requires data — the more, the better. The problem is that creating these datasets takes a lot of time and effort, and methods don’t scale well.

Sunday Robotics, a robotics startup, spent less than 2 years in stealth, developing a home robot named Memo. Memo can autonomously clear the dinner table and load the dishwasher, the startup said. CEO ...

MIT's Personal Robotics Group created a robot that can play with kids and even give them educational lessons — and it's flipping adorable. "Adorable" and "robot" are not two things that typically go ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, ...