Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can move around in their ...

A new meta-learning framework inspired by how babies explore the world could help robots adapt faster, handle objects safely, and interact more naturally with humans.

The ReWiND method, which consists of three phases: learning a reward function, pre-training, and using the reward function ...

Humanoid robots struggle with new tasks. A new approach could help them handle objects reliably in homes, factories, and service settings.

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 ...