Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot may have skipped the inaugural “robot Olympics” in China last week, but that doesn’t mean the engineers behind the machine have been sitting around watching the world ...

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Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

Members of Driggs-Campell’s lab used human-led 3D demonstration videos to teach robots how to manipulate household tools like ...

A video (top) features some of the robots in action on the first day. A running contest, for example, shows several of the ...