By designing for failure, building observability and treating everything as a hypothesis, you can build software that is ...

As industrial robots begin learning from simulations, digital twins and even one another, automation on the factory floor is entering a new phase. Instead of relying solely on preprogrammed ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world. Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the ...

A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories and homes. The humanoid robots are being taught how to do basic tasks: pouring coffee, ...

Ask a robot to put a coffee mug in the cabinet, and you quickly see how complicated an ordinary chore can become. You know where the mug belongs. You can step around a chair, avoid the clutter on the ...

If you want to work with robots you can do all sorts of learning with software and simulation, but nothing quite beats getting to grips with real machinery. That was the motivation for [James Gullberg ...

A language model can learn to write by reading the internet. A robot cannot learn to load a dishwasher the same way, because the internet holds almost no record of what it feels like to grip a wet ...

Even advanced technology can struggle when the real world becomes unpredictable. In April 2026, a Waymo robotaxi in San Antonio, Texas, drove into a flooded lane during severe weather, prompting the ...

KAIST researchers developed a four-legged robot that can independently choose whether to walk, run, or jump as terrain ...