Intrinsic motivation, a concept drawn from behavioural science, has gained significant traction in robotic research as a means to stimulate exploratory behaviour in the absence of explicit external ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...

York Library will offer a five‑week Beginning VEX Robotics workshop for students in grades 4–6 from Jan. 26 through March 4.

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 ...

Standing amid hundreds of people in the rotunda of Chicago's iconic Museum of Science and Industry, Ritika Ghosh (MSR '23) felt her confidence building. Ghosh was teaching people of all ages about a ...

ChatGPT and other AI tools are upending our digital lives, but our AI interactions are about to get physical. Humanoid robots trained with a particular type of AI to sense and react to their world ...

Hang Yin’s high school experience opened his eyes to the future of robotics that he now is helping to mold. Hang Yin (MSR ‘23) was in high school when he founded a robotics team to participate in the ...

Rules-based automation (RBA) and learning are two training mechanisms in robotics. While there are many others, these are two ...

SAN FRANCISCO & TRONDHEIM, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--T-robotics, a developer of programming for any robot using natural language and skill models with no code required, today announced it has raised a ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions drive a large share of global pain, disability, and lost productivity. Rehabilitation can be effective, but outcomes vary ...