New work has enabled robots to learn household chores by watching videos of people performing everyday tasks in their homes. Vision-Robotics Bridge, or VRB for short, uses the concept of affordances ...

Robots might be taking over the world, and the pandemic could be hastening the takeover. But if you ask the people at Starship Technologies, that’s a good thing. Starship, with headquarters in San ...

But that all might change now, the Post says, since researchers have successfully trained state of the art of robot surgeons with next-generation technology, using videos of procedures, so that ...

They don’t get fruitcakes or Christmas cards from grateful patients, but for decades robots have been helping doctors perform gallbladder removals, hysterectomies, hernia repairs, prostate surgeries ...

Robots have been featured in movies as far back as back as 1907's "The Mechanical Statue and the Ingenious Servant," proving moviegoers' fascination with the intersection between humanity and ...

The DreamWorks Animation epic adventure The Wild Robot follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say researchers. A robot, trained for the first ...

This year, a captivating series of robot-themed Christmas videos has taken the internet by storm. These robots don't just assist; they immerse themselves in the celebration, from sneakily decorating ...

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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 ...