Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts ...

The robots are in their early stages of development. So they mess up quite a bit. They certainly aren't doing these tasks ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

A still from Carnegie Mellon University’s video showing a robot learning how to perform household chores (Shikhar Bahl/ Carnegie Mellon University) Engineers have built robots that are capable of ...

Swiss scientists have published research showing AI-informed robots can learn how to self correct and teach other robots how to behave. It raises questions of consciousness in artificial intelligence.

It does not take much to confuse some robots. A machine might be great at handling a simple object like a box, yet when it ...

The vision of robots as true partners in our daily work has remained just that—a vision. While we've seen an explosion of ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, ...

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.

Navigation, mapping system free machines for independent, unattended commercial work. A new generation of autonomous, problem-solving robots will soon be entering commercial service. Recent advances ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...