In context: Teaching robots new skills has traditionally been slow and painstaking, requiring hours of step-by-step demonstrations for even the simplest tasks. If a robot encountered something ...

Earlier in 2020, around February, Georgia Tech professor Gil Weinberg introduced an unlikely contender in the musical arena: Shimon the robot. The lean machine was presented as a non-human ...

Interacting with robots may soon be as common as using a smartphone Preschoolers interact with educational and interactive robot Nao at "La Nanosphere" creche in the university campus of the Swiss ...