Robotics startup 1X Technologies has developed a new generative model that can make it much more efficient to train robotics systems in simulation. The model, which the company announced in a new blog ...

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 ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent ...

NVIDIA, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing, has unveiled an exciting new AI platform called Cosmos. Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas ...

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

The newest frontier in robotics is almost invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have built a robot smaller than a grain of ...

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer. Robots perceive the world around them very ...

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The door opens to reveal furious activity ...

Robotically enhanced surgeries are minimally invasive with less disruption of tissue, so postoperative pain is diminished and ...