As humanoid robots move from labs into homes, stores, and warehouses, a simple question is gaining urgency: who teaches them how to behave around people? Companies are testing machines that can walk, grasp, and talk. Regulators are writing rules as they go.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and paying attention. Researchers in Europe added a learning ...

Our students are growing into a world where they will find themselves sharing their space, work, and lives with more and more robots. More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using robot arms to make french fries, so even a job as ...

Modern robotics has reached a point where movement is no longer the main challenge – machines can already navigate, grasp, and operate in space with impressive precision. Yet enabling them to truly “live” and function in the real world remains an unsolved problem.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Because social robots have a body, humans react to them differently than we do to a computer screen. Studies have shown that little children sometimes accept social robots as peers.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — When you think about robots, you may imagine scenes from a dystopian movie. But, one associate professor believes teaching robots about humans is actually beneficial. Associate Professor Aniket Bera teaches computer science at ...

The Toyota Research Institute has been doing some incredible work teaching robots to rapidly learn and perform tasks autonomously – now, it's bringing its Large Behavior Model tech to the extraordinary Atlas humanoid in partnership with Boston Dynamics.

William Xie, a first-year PhD student in computer science, is teaching a robot to reason how gently it should grasp previously unknown objects by using large language models (LLMs). DeliGrasp, Xie's project, is an intriguing step beyond the custom ...

Nature is brimming with animals that collaborate in large numbers. Bees stake out the best feeding spots and let others know where they are. Ants construct complex hierarchical homes built for defense. Flocks of starlings move across the sky in beautiful ...