In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, ...

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mark Yim has completed the second phase of a human-robot interaction research project at Penn’s ModLab. The project primarily aims to develop Quori, a ...

Robots have long been the backbone of manufacturing—welding car frames, assembling electronics and executing repetitive tasks with machine-like precision. But outside the structured walls of factories ...

“Robot utility models” sidestep the need to tweak the data used to train robots every time they try to do something in unfamiliar settings. It’s tricky to get robots to do things in environments ...

The effort to "align" AI with human values is falling dangerously short in robotic systems, according to researchers from Penn Engineering ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Intrinsic unit, which develops technology that makes industrial robots easier to program, today debuted a set of artificial intelligence models created by its engineers. Executives ...

OpenAI quietly scaled its robotics project over the past year. Around 100 workers collect data around the clock to teach robots how to perform household tasks. OpenAI previously explored robotics, but ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but the problem is they don’t really understand the words they use. They are primarily systems that interact with data obtained from ...

Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models made by or backed by the likes of Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI are ...