To help humans to complete everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to reliably manipulate everyday objects that vary in shape, texture and size. Many conventional approaches to enable robotic ...

MIT and Google DeepMind researchers have created an AI-driven robot that can turn ideas into physical objects with only ...

A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what's inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, ...

Engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of tasks. Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter ...

Researchers have designed an intelligent household robot capable of autonomous navigation, object detection, and sorting. This robot, equipped with advanced technologies like depth cameras, YOLOv11 ...

While large language models (LLMs) have mastered text (and other modalities to some extent), they lack the physical "common sense" to operate in dynamic, real-world environments. This has limited the ...

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Scientists at Tarim University of China have proposed a way to address the challenging problem of pose recognition for photovoltaic panel cleaning robots. Their novel solution is based on a low power ...