Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...

(Nanowerk News) By watching their own motions with a camera, robots can teach themselves about the structure of their own bodies and how they move, a new study from researchers at Columbia Engineering ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Scientists have created a robot that learns lip movements by watching humans rather than following preset rules. The ...

Inside the robotics laboratory of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of robots are busy cooking. There is nothing special about that; robotic chefs have been ...

A humanoid learned to control its facial motors by watching itself in a mirror before imitating human lip movement from ...

A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

The EMO humanoid learns to lip-sync speech and song by observation, producing more natural mouth movements that reduce the ...

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially ...

Can robots grasp diverse objects adaptively like humans? Published in National Science Review, researchers from Tsinghua ...