The dream is robots that do not simply blindly follow orders, but learn and understand intuitively what to do. The reinforcement learning system for controlling an inverted pendulum.

This embodied learning could moreover show the way for safer and more ethical AI in the future, both by improving transparency, and by it being able to better understand the effects of its actions.

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 by researchers at Columbia Engineering now reveals ...

MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.

The company has been using reinforcement learning to help fallen robots right themselves. Agility shut off Digit’s obstacle avoidance for the above video to force a fall.

Researchers developed a novel learning-based method so robots on extraterrestrial bodies can make decisions on their own about where and how to scoop up terrain samples.

PITTSBURGH — The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is pioneering the future of robotics with innovative learning techniques. "Similar to how you train a dog, so we ...

Now, researchers from Stephen James’s Robot Learning Lab in London are using image-generating AI models for a new purpose: creating training data for robots.

Folding laundry, cooking shrimp, wiping surfaces, unloading shopping baskets—today’s AI-powered robots are learning to do tasks that for their predecessors would have been extremely difficult.

Advances in machine learning (the mathematical operations behind AI) enable better robotics when there is more data and information.

Lempner and Rogers were among 25 elementary and middle school students who signed up for the second Ross Rambotics Lego NXT Robotics Camp, which began Monday, June 14, at Ross High School.

Mars rovers have teams of human experts on Earth telling them what to do. But robots on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are too far away to receive timely commands from Earth ...