The innovation center, one of China's largest humanoid robot training platforms, hosts more than 20 simulated settings, including hospitals, supermarkets, kitchens and offices. There, human trainers ...

One of the first things you discover in the world of robotics is the complexity of simple tasks. Things that appear simple to humans have potentially infinite variables that we take for granted.

Once upon a time, machine learning was an arcane field, the preserve of a precious few researchers holed up in grand academic institutions. Progress was slow, and hard won. Today, however, just about ...

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Subscribe to our ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand ...