Robot learning and language acquisition represent an interdisciplinary endeavour combining robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This field studies how autonomous systems can ...

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The group with the robot tutor made fewer errors and spoke more fluently than the group with human tutors, indicating the effectiveness of robot-assisted learning. Advancements in large language ...

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On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveiled PaLM-E, a multimodal embodied visual-language model (VLM) with 562 billion parameters that integrates ...

Mohamed Baghdady leans to the microphone and says the word "one." A lone mechanical finger on the table responds with a curl, then rises upright. At another table in The Citadel engineering lab, a ...

Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots. By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose is a technology columnist, and co-hosts the Times podcast ...

Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, ...

The whole world is ragging on a barely functional $700 AI pin at the moment, but what if similar tech was squeezed into a gigantic robot that lives in your home? That’s a worst case scenario for the ...