With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks.

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With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, researchers showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, named ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo managed to teach a dual-armed robot how to peel a banana without turning it to mush in the process. Teaching a robot to handle delicate objects and ...

Sunday Robotics, a robotics startup, spent less than 2 years in stealth, developing a home robot named Memo. Memo can autonomously clear the dinner table and load the dishwasher, the startup said. CEO ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, ...