WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

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 ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

Instead of designing a humanoid robot with AI reasoning and neural networks, you can just teach it yourself. Researchers at Stanford University developed a robot that can imitate what you’re doing in ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Imagine walking downtown when you hear a loud bang coming from the construction site across the ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

With tests of humanoid bots and new developments in military applications, the year ahead will intrigue even the skeptics. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, ...

Scientists have created a robot that can learn tasks like cleaning a washbasin just by watching humans. A special sponge with sensors is used to show the robot how to clean. Using an advanced machine ...