Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ...

[Benjie Holson] is an experienced roboticist and wrote an interesting article published on IEEE Spectrum about how the idea most people have of non-roboticists is a myth, and efforts to target this ...

"This work is a departure from how robots are programmed today. The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks. That's just impossible, ...

Nick Morales used his final project in the MSR program to investigate a form of robotics that enables machines to predict human intent to move and position large, heavy objects. Anyone who has ever ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Kids Explore Robotics, co-founded by Vinod Agrawal, offers hands-on robotics education for children, including year-round classes and a Summer Robotics Camp available both ...

What does it actually take to teach a humanoid robot to act human? Inside Tesla’s robotics operation, the answer looks less like science fiction than repetitive labor. Workers in a glass-walled lab ...

Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know and ask for clarification from a human. Modern robots know how to sense their ...