Now, as a student in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program, Patil developed an open-source software package that filled what he saw as a gap in the robotics community.

Embodied intelligence refers to the ability of robots to combine physical actions with advanced reasoning, perception, and decision-making. Unlike traditional machines that follow fixed commands, ...

Hugging Face's LeRobot platform — a free, open-source framework for training AI models on physical robots — now hosts more than 58,000 community-contributed datasets, up from 1,145 at the end of 2024, ...