Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire ...

Teaching a robot how to do something is usually done by either programming it to perform a specific task, or demonstrating that task for the robot to observe and imitate. The latter method, however, ...

Robots are useful assistants, from cleaning floors to setting timers. But when it comes to helping sick humans, in ERs and at home, there are huge technical and ethical hurdles. UCSD Professor Laurel ...

Today's robotic world is a fairly advanced one, with a wide variety of machines capable of doing a whole lot of amazing things. Yet our world is far from having reached the peak of this industry while ...

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 newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

There are two ways to teach a robot to do something: Demonstrate the task and make it replicate it, or program the task directly into its software. The first method usually means the robot is limited ...

Controlled remotely by English teachers in the Philippines, the 29 robots wheeled around the classroom while speaking to the students, reading books to them, and dancing to music by moving their head ...

At MIT, computer science engineers are teaching robots how to think like human beings, both to problem-solve and transfer their knowledge to other robots. At MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...

Robot sporting events could become more common in the coming years. But how many of us will be tuning in to watch?

Education technology has many faces. A prominent one has long been computer-assisted language learning, offering great promise for struggling readers, non-English speakers, or those seeking to master ...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQplTBx6rV0&w=680&h=383] MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has a new robotic trick up its ...

A team of scientists at MIT has developed an autonomous robot that uses a suite of sensors and an advanced machine learning technique to navigate crowded areas while adhering to (human) social norms.