The vision of robots as true partners in our daily work has remained just that—a vision. While we've seen an explosion of ...

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 ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Robotics Certification Program Reaches More than 20,000 Instawork Pros in Its First Weeks; Hundreds of Thousands of ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Being a baby is harder than it looks. Born into the world knowing almost nothing, they spend their first few years getting a PhD in navigating a physical environment. Likewise, ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

On a hot morning this past summer, a sleepy John Crerar Library starts to rouse as Chicago Public Schools rising seniors arrived for a college-level robot programming course on the University of ...

What if improving children’s reading skills didn’t start with another worksheet, but with a rescue mission? Across ...

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 ...