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, ...

The students spent the day in teams, building robots and then putting them to the test in some friendly competitions.

The researchers detailed their findings in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. "Like humans learning to dance by ...

A select group of 20 fifth graders participated in Marie Curie Institute’s Robotics Club this winter. The club met over a 10 week period to learn about robots, to build a robot, and to program their ...

Roomba maker iRobot cofounder Rodney Brooks argued that Musk's vision of an Optimus robot-filled future is "pure fantasy ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a suite of technologies at the company's GPU Technology Conference 2025 designed to help robots learn how to be robots. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too. Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, ...

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...

A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading out loud.

Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone ...