WorkFar's AI enables its robots to identify and pick up objects of varying sizes, shapes, and textures at the direction of a human operator. Essentially, a trained teleoperator tells the robot ...

Tesla is ramping up hiring for its humanoid robot program, Optimus, including some reinforcement learning engineers. It was hard to take Tesla Bot seriously when Elon Musk announced it by having ...

Robot grippers and suction cups can pick and place items, but more dexterous tasks such as assembly, insertion, reorientation, packaging, etc. have remained in the realm of human manipulation.

MONTREAL — Robot software company RoboDK has released TwinTrack, a tool that allows users to program any industrial robot by tracing the desired motion with a handheld probe. As robots move into ...

While that footage may indeed be quite impressive, last week Sanctuary AI announced that its 21-DOF (degrees of freedom) robotic hand is now also capable of in-hand manipulation.

Alexander Dietrich, Thomas Wimböck, and Alin Albu-Schäffer, "Dynamic Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation with a Torque Controlled Humanoid Robot via Impedance Control Laws" in Proc. of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ ...

An illustration provided on RoboHow's website loosely explains the project's "knowledge-enabled and plan based approach to robot programming and control." (robohow.eu ) ...