In order for delivery robots to drop your takeout, package or meal-kit at the door, they'll need to be able to find the door. In most cases, that requires mapping a location in advance so that the ...

(Nanowerk News) While science fiction movies depict robots moving freely on their own, sometimes running to avoid perilous explosions or collapsing buildings, today’s technology doesn’t have that ...

This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. For humans, working with deformable objects is not significantly more difficult than handling rigid objects. We learn naturally to ...

Robotics, for many of us, is still an application mostly limited to the factory or warehouse floor. We see media coverage on personal robot assistants and robots playing a bigger role in hospitals, ...

ADELPHI, Md. -- Army researchers created a new collection of video sequences known as the Robot Unstructured Ground Driving, or RUGD, dataset designed specifically to help train autonomous vehicles ...

The oceans are Earth's least explored space. Blanketing more than two-thirds of the planet, the seas hide clues about questions like "when is the next tsunami?," "where did that plane crash?," and ...