Lerrel Pinto says the key to building useful home robots is helping them learn from their mistakes. Lerrel Pinto is one of MIT Technology Review’s 2023 Innovators Under 35. Asked to explain his work, ...

A new algorithm developed by USC computer science researchers shows that robots can, in computer simulations, learn tasks after a single demonstration Aging populations and caregivers stand to benefit ...

Kris Weng (MSR '25) used his MSR final project to develop a dextrous robotic hand and arm that learns as it provides assistance. In 1989, video gamers around the world were sold the potential of ...

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine’s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled ...

"We've had a bit of a breakthrough." Toyota, MIT and Columbia Engineering have shown off wild results from a new AI learning approach that massively accelerates how quickly robots can acquire new ...

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 ...

According to a recent study by Columbia Engineering researchers published in Nature Machine Intelligence, robots can learn ...

As someone who quite enjoys the Zen of tidying up, I was only too happy to grab a dustpan and brush and sweep up some beans spilled on a tabletop while visiting the Toyota Research Lab in Cambridge, ...