Abstract: This paper presents Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning (SPI-DP), a novel first-order optimizer capable of optimizing robot programs with respect to both high-level task ...

Many schools across the U.S. offer robotics through a technical elective or club centered on coding, building, and competition. But in a rapidly evolving economy, more is needed. Robotics, which ...

Last week, I attended NVIDIA’s 2026 GTC event in San Jose, Calif. This year, the company expected over 30,000 attendees across the four days of the show. To host everyone, NVIDIA held events across ...

The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.” Melania Trump, the first lady, with Figure 3, a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, an ...

A new AI system called LATENT helps a humanoid robot react faster on the tennis court by learning from imperfect human motion data.

With grocery costs still straining budgets in 2026, many retirees are looking for ways to boost their buck at the grocery store to combat food costs without sacrificing nutrition. The Supplemental ...

In an interview with entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, Musk shared that the Optimus Gen 3 robot was in the "final stages" of completion, adding that the robot was "gonna be by far the most advanced robot ...

Additional 3-K seats will be available to Brooklyn families this fall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday. The city will add more than 1,000 new seats in 56 ZIP codes, moving New York closer to ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

The Chinese tech giant shared that the humanoid robots it deployed successfully achieved 3 hours of autonomous operations, placing self-tapping nuts in the die-casting workshop, CnEVPost reported on ...

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy studies how educators can use robots to teach Computer Science, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CS-STEM). Our mission is to use the educational ...