Scientists summarize, compare and contrast research in learned robot manipulation through the lens of adaptability and outline promising research directions for the future. What if a robot could ...

What if a robot could organize your closet or chop your vegetables? A sous chef in every home could someday be a reality. Still, while advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have ...

Figure Helix 02 targets long-horizon chores under one neural network; 1,000+ training hours support tight-space movement and ...

Giulia Pasquale is at the Italian Institute of Technology, 16163 Genoa, Italy, and the Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, University of Genoa, Genoa. The authors’ glove consists of ...

While robots with a human touch are still not a common sight, they are slowly appearing in public. For years, recreating the softness sensation of a person’s touch remained the ultimate technological ...

What makes a robot truly intelligent? Is it the ability to solve complex equations in milliseconds or something more human-like—such as recognizing a misplaced object in a cluttered room or adapting ...

A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 instances ...

(Nanowerk News) Tools for manipulating small suspended particles such as cells, microparticles and nanoparticles play an essential role in the advancement of fundamental science and discovery of new ...