A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of ‘robot students’. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new ‘robot school’ is being used to teach ...

Cassie, a robot developed by OSU researchers, holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest 100-meter dash run by a bipedal robot. Cassie, a robot developed by Oregon State University researchers, ...

Researchers have constructed a robot that uses machine learning to fully automate a complicated microinjection process used in genetic research. University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have ...

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 ...

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A robot trained by machine learning that imitates a human demonstrator can successfully peel a banana without smashing it to smithereens. Handling soft fruit is a challenge for robots, which often ...