A Step Closer to Self-Aware Machines Robots that are self-aware have been science fiction fodder for decades, and now we may finally be getting closer. Humans are unique in being a... Read more
MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga In the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently pokes at a tower of... Read more
With a smartphone and a browser, people worldwide will be able to interact with a robot to speed the process of teaching robots how to do basic tasks. In the basement of the Gates... Read more
System enables people to correct robot mistakes on multi-choice problems Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: usually scientists have to either explicitly program them or... Read more
Researchers from NVIDIA, led by Stan Birchfield and Jonathan Tremblay, developed a first of its kind deep learning-based system that can teach a robot to complete a task by just ob... Read more
By enabling them to ask a question when they’re confused, an algorithm developed at Brown University helps robots get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot... Read more
A draft report submitted to the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has recommended that robots be equipped with a “kill switch” in order to manage the... Read more
Robots today can perform space missions, solve a Rubik’s cube, sort hospital medication and even make pancakes. But most can’t manage the simple act of grasping a pencil and spinni... Read more
Madeline Gannon (A 2016), a Ph.D. candidate in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, has put the power of interacting with robots into our hands — literally. N... Read more
A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that captures our learning abilities, enabling computers to recognize and draw simple visual concepts that are mostly indistinguisha... Read more
Babies learn about the world by exploring how their bodies move in space, grabbing toys, pushing things off tables and by watching and imitating what adults are doing. But when rob... Read more
