A still from Carnegie Mellon University’s video showing a robot learning how to perform household chores (Shikhar Bahl/ Carnegie Mellon University) Engineers have built robots that are capable of ...

Not long ago, the idea of a humanoid robot folding laundry, loading a dishwasher, or making a simple meal felt like science fiction. Robots could weld cars, move boxes, and follow tightly scripted ...

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Researchers working on multiple projects in Europe and the United States are using cloud computing to teach robotic systems to perform a multitude of tasks ranging from household chores to serving ...

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Researchers have developed a new learning method for robots called WHIRL, short for In-the-Wild Human Imitating Robot Learning. WHIRL is an efficient algorithm for one-shot visual imitation. It can ...

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Engineers have built robots that are capable of learning new skills by watching videos of humans performing them. A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) developed a model that allowed robots to ...