Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can move around in their ...

A new meta-learning framework inspired by how babies explore the world could help robots adapt faster, handle objects safely, ...

The ReWiND method, which consists of three phases: learning a reward function, pre-training, and using the reward function ...

Humanoid robots struggle with new tasks. A new approach could help them handle objects reliably in homes, factories, and ...

Robotic systems that mirror humans both in their appearance and movements, also known as humanoid robots, could be best suited for tackling many tasks that are currently performed by human agents.

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...