Abstract: Touch is one of the most important human senses. With the development of artificial intelligence, an increasing number of scholars are investigating how robots can be endowed with the sense ...

Four-legged robots that scramble up stairs, stride over rubble, and stream inspection data — no preorder, no lab coat ...

Abstract: Indoor robot navigation demands that robots not only map their environment, but also understand the context within it. Traditional geometric, topological, and semantic models offer ...

Vibe coding is a natural language-driven, AI-assisted way to build software. Instead of writing every line of code by hand, you describe what you want via natural language prompts to an agentic AI ...

On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like just another software update, but for the robotics industry, it signaled a ...

Agility Robotics Inc. is continuing to be a pioneer in commercializing humanoid robots. The company today said it has signed an agreement with Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc., or TMMC, to ...

We train latent diffusion models, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the scalability of our Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) through ...

Mr. Ford is an essayist and a technologist. On weekday evenings, heading home on the subway from Union Square in New York City, I log into an A.I. tool from my phone and write a prompt. “Look at the ...

BEIJING — China’s most-watched TV show, the annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, on Monday showcased the country’s cutting-edge industrial policy and Beijing’s push to dominate humanoid robots and the ...

Robots are almost always highly repeatable. Absolute accuracy, on the other hand, often leaves something to be desired. A team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation ...