The humanoid robot now flows through gymnastics level movements, proving that reinforcement learning can produce stunning ...

Tesla is ramping up hiring for its humanoid robot program, Optimus, including some reinforcement learning engineers. It was hard to take Tesla Bot seriously when Elon Musk announced it by having ...

Engineers at Boston Dynamics have released new test footage of the Atlas humanoid robot, ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

Robot news has been coming fast and furious this month. One robot won a half-marathon in Beijing, and others captured a Russian position in Ukraine. And last week, we learned of a robotic arm that ...

Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

A table tennis robot has outperformed elite players in recent evaluations. The robot, called Ace, marks a significant step ...

Toyota debuted CUE7, an AI-powered humanoid robot that learned to shoot free throws through trial and error, in front of 8,400 fans at Toyota Arena Tokyo.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Pieter Abbeel the recipient of the 2021 ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to robot learning, including learning from demonstrations and ...