Apple TV+'s new sci-fi show has introduced television to one of the best robots in the entire genre, and it could easily go down as an icon of TV.

In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments.

However, this perspective misses a key difference between robots and conventional automation: the ability to rapidly improve from data. To emphasize this point, let’s consider how one might ...

Training robots to execute tasks in the real world requires data — the more, the better. The problem is that creating these datasets takes a lot of time and effort, and methods don’t scale well.

AI is upending the way robots learn, leaving companies and researchers with a need for more data. Getting it means wrestling with a host of ethical and legal questions. Since ChatGPT was released ...

Inspired by large language models, researchers developed a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills. In the classic cartoon "The Jetsons," Rosie the robotic maid ...

What’s not known, however, is what the data says about how effective these robots are in deterrence, Hassard said. The lack of data could stem from companies not wanting to admit they had ...