The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Xu its CAREER award given to early career faculty. The award will enable Xu to ...

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Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes. Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward ...

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Researcher and technologist Matt Beane, an assistant professor in the Technology Management Department at UC Santa Barbara, is calling attention to an immediate and hidden concern in the modern ...

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 ...

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A University of Chicago study suggests robots could offer a new kind of support to help kids eliminate anxiety about reading ...

Ready, set, go! A robot called mCLARI designed by engineers at CU Boulder poses next to a spider. (Credit: Heiko Kabutz) The question may be the 21st century’s version of the fable of the tortoise and ...

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