Perhaps the greatest outrage in modern robotics is the continued non-existence of the robot housekeeper. Is it really so much to ask for a robot that sweeps and mops and brings you pills on ...

Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and ...

How do you make a robot smarter? Program it to know what it doesn't know Date: November 28, 2023 Source: Princeton University, Engineering School Summary: Engineers have come up with a new way to ...

"This work is a departure from how robots are programmed today. The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks.

Robot “training academies” could help industrial robots learn to perform complicated tasks by watching a human do them first.

How to train a robot with virtual reality (no coding required) The convergence of VR and robotics is one of the most important early use cases for mixed reality in the enterprise.

How do robotic lawnmowers work? Robotic lawnmowers are both simpler than they look and yet still very complex. They work on your lawn just like a robot vacuum does on your floors – moving around ...

For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle ...

Robot vacuums are actually worth it if you understand their settings. As a pro robot vacuum tester, I've learned some tips to set them up for success.

Learning to ice skate takes time and effort. One robot has learned how to do it – all by itself. Robots can walk, climb, and even open doors. But can they iceskate? Well, it seems now they can ...