China is set to host what has been dubbed the world's first robot half-marathon in Beijing on April 13, prompting several of the country's leading robot developers to train and prepare their humanoids ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

Tech firms are racing to develop robot assistants that can take over our dreaded household chores. But teaching machines to perform these deceptively simple tasks is tedious. They need to observe the ...