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

"This work is a departure from how robots are programmed today. The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

Atlas, a humanoid robot, can now perform complex tasks with a large behavior model without needing hand programming for each ...

Robot vacuums are actually worth it if you understand their settings. As a pro robot vacuum tester, I've learned some tips to set them up for success.

However, teaching a robot how much force to use and which angle to clean at are entirely different matters. To overcome this challenge, the team used a new approach.

At a base level, all robot vacuums use some combination of sensors to figure out where it is on the floor and whether it’s going to run into something. A combination of obstacle, wall, and cliff ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Of ...

Humanoid robots have come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years, but the grand promises of factories filled with ...

So do robot lawn mowers work to cut grass? Yes, but so do scissors. Ensuring you get a properly sized robot lawn mower is the first step in getting back time lost to you manually mowing your yard.

Most robot vacuum brands measure suction power in pascals (Pa). As of March 2024, the highest Pa levels you'll see are around 8,000 Pa, with one upcoming Roborock model clocking in at 10,000 Pa.

How to get a robot collective to act like a smart material Date: February 21, 2025 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara Summary: Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and ...