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 ...

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A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

In the basement of MIT's Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently pokes at a tower of blocks, looking for the best block to extract without toppling the tower, in a ...

A four-legged robot took only an hour to learn how to walk without stumbling, roughly the same amount of time as newborn foals need. Felix Ruppert and Alexander Badri-Sprowitz at the Max Planck ...

Jan. 30 (UPI) --Engineers at Columbia University have built a robot capable of building an image of itself from scratch. Robots have not yet learned to create a self ...

Korean researchers have created a new control framework that allows four-legged robots to perform parkour-like movements, enabling them to navigate complex environments independently. In tests, the ...

Study hard enough, kids, and maybe one day you’ll grow up to be a professional robot fighter. A few years ago, Boston Dynamics set the standard for the field by having people wielding hockey sticks ...