The idea behind developmental robotics is to create robots that learn behaviors the same way human children do. Typically, a software model is programmed to represent a part of the robot’s “brain.” ...

Can robots learn how to love? If you've watched or read any amount of scifi, you know the answer is definitely yes. But not all robots learn how to love ...

Purdue professor programs robots and AI to navigate the physical world more easily — partly by teaching robots to dance.

One of humanoid robots’ main selling points is their ability to slot into existing workflows — these factories and warehouses are known as “brownfield,” meaning they weren’t custom built ...

At the Hanover Fair, robots and humans were at the center of industrial activity. We're to be collaborators now. The question is: can we ever learn to love robots? DW's Zulfikar Abbany finds a ...

A collaboration between developmental psychologists and computer scientists has demonstrated that robots can "learn" much like babies - by experiencing the world and eventually imitating humans.

But by learning to love rather than fear the robots, we have the opportunity to build a future workplace which is both more productive and more satisfying, and perhaps, dare I say it, a lot more ...

The robots at CMU are unique because they use intuitive learning to become smarter. "We use something called reinforced learning, and the robot tries lots of different things and whatever leads to ...

The idea is to program robots to make decisions the same way that humans do, based on our innate emotional responses to unknown stimuli—and in particular our fear response.

Slowly, but surely, the Baxter robot is learning. It starts as a series of random grasps — the big, red robot pokes and prods clumsily at objects on the table in front of it. The robot is ...

At a time when social distancing has become the norm, MIT researchers are teaching robots how to work more effectively alongside humans.