Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers ...

Discover how reinforcement learning is transforming quadruped robots like Spot into agile, adaptable tools for real-world applications.

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that allows a user to easily program any robot to perform a task, dramatically bringing down the costs of building and programming mobile robots.

The robot can understand natural language commands, remember what it learned, and reuse instructions for similar tasks down the line.

Yet no robot can. It takes too much knowledge about that one kitchen—and too much common sense and flexibility and resourcefulness—for robot programming to capture.

The study will require participants to program a robot arm to complete different tasks (no prior experience with technology, robots, or programming is required). The study may take up to 150 minutes.

Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program A prototype of a robotic hand learning to spin a cross-shaped widget. In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots.