(Nanowerk News) Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Engineers ...

A new handheld interface developed by MIT engineers enables a person to teach a robot new skills, using any of three training approaches: natural teaching (top left), kinesthetic training (middle), ...

General-purpose robots are hard to train. The dream is to have a robot like the Jetson’s Rosie that can performing a range of household tasks, like tidying up or folding laundry. But for that to ...