Why would you want a robot to see inside a sealed box? Digging deeper beyond the initial creepy thought, a new breakthrough from MIT could soon let warehouse robots do something pretty remarkable.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Researchers have developed a new algorithm called cuTAMP to accelerate robot task and motion planning (TAMP). TAMP involves generating a high-level task plan—a sequence of actions—and a corresponding ...

Robots are getting better at recognising objects, navigating buildings and following spoken instructions, but remembering places over long periods has remained a surprisingly difficult task. While ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

MIT’s DAAAM gives robots long-term memory by attaching language descriptions to 3D maps. You can ask “where did I leave my wallet?” and it knows. Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where ...

Researchers at MIT have an AI-powered system that automatically creates realistic 3D indoor environments to generate training data for robots. Named SceneSmith, the platform uses three collaborative ...

MIT this week showcased a new model for training robots. Rather than the standard set of focused data used to teach robots new tasks, the method goes big, mimicking the massive troves of information ...

As useful and impressive as robots can be, they present one ubiquitous concern: Will they take our jobs? Robots and other autonomous technologies are rapidly gaining prevalence across a variety of ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

Harvard and MIT engineers, showing a reckless disregard for the robocalypse, have created origami robots that can self-assemble themselves -- from a flat piece of paper and polystyrene -- and walk ...

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 ...