In the video published on Monday, each robot picks objects from piles of different heights, forcing the system to rely on live perception and motion planning. The robots do not follow fixed paths.

Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. Stacking requires a range ...

Sunday Robotics spent less than 2 years in stealth figuring out how to train robots to complete complex tasks like handling ...

If robot baseball were a thing—oh, somebody please look into that, that sounds amazing—you’d definitely want this robot arm developed by EPFL researchers on the team. This particular arm is capable of ...

There are some things a robot can't do, but catching a flying object is no longer one of them. With its four-fingered, three-jointed hand, a new robot can catch a ball, a bottle or a tennis racket ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the ...

The ability to create tools from everyday objects requires creativity, abstract thinking, and problem-solving. As such, that complex ability has been used emblematically to differentiate so-called ...

Computer vision — a machine's ability to "see" objects or images and understand something about them — can already help you unlock your fancy new iPhone just by looking at it. The thing is, it has to ...