For a long time, the core idea in reinforcement learning (RL) was that AI agents should learn every new task from scratch, like a blank slate. This "tabula rasa" approach led to amazing achievements, ...

On a hot morning this past summer, a sleepy John Crerar Library starts to rouse as Chicago Public Schools rising seniors arrived for a college-level robot programming course on the University of ...

Machine learning, in which computers learn new skills by looking for patterns in training data, is the basis of most recent advances in artificial intelligence, from voice-recognition systems to ...

Inside an ordinary-looking home, a robot suspended from the ceiling slowly expands arms holding a sponge, before carefully wiping a kitchen surface clean. Nearby, another robot gently cleans a ...

Workplace etiquette is not something normally associated with robots, but a new MIT project aims to teach robots social etiquette to more effectively work alongside humans. In the current COVID-19 ...

Robots can now learn to pick, stack, and organize things inside digital rooms without needing real-world training every time.

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second ...

Robots that we interact with in today’s society are programmed to carry out tasks without deviation. The robots of the future might just be a little more defiant. Researchers at the Tufts University ...

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