Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes.

A team of researchers from TU Wein has developed a self-learning robot to complete simple tasks like cleaning washbasins.

Want the top robotics news in your inbox each week? Sign up for Actuator here. Additional research highlighted by CMU this week compares its work to early-stage human learning.

With no well-specified rewards and state transitions that take place in a myriad of ways, training a robot via reinforcement learning represents perhaps the most complex arena for machine learning.

It can enable a robot to take input data generated by an expert performing the actions to be learned, and combine it with deep learning techniques to enable more effective learning of movements.

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

By Axel Reitzig, the robotics and computer science coordinator for St. Vrain Valley Schools in Colorado Public education represents a community’s investment in its future. Considering that over ...

Students with learning disabilities struggle often require additional, individualized support to fill educational gaps. A team of researchers and experts have found that a cute little robot may ...