Robots and drones are a central focus of the Fukushima Innovation Coast concept. The Fukushima Robot Test Field, located in Minamisōma, is a central part of initiatives to attract businesses to ...

Researchers from Cornell University have released a framework called BeyondMimic that allows humanoid robots to perform ...

Their proposed framework, presented in a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, could help to enhance the adaptability of robots, while also improving their performance in real-world settings.

Robots are already participating in Olympic sports like running and high jumps, but they’re also showing progress in playing games requiring fine ...

With HUMAC, a human coach selectively takes control of individual robots when necessary. After just 40 minutes of guidance, the robot team exhibits strong collaborative behaviors such as ambushing and ...

Tool-as-Interface, a two-camera, video-only method that teaches robots tool use, with a high average success rate and cuts data collection time.

The robot has only been tested in a lab so far but will foray on to the roads of Hertfordshire for a test early this year.

Last year, Google open sourced the code for the robots.txt parser used in its production systems. After seeing the community build tools with it and add their own contributions to the open source ...