Artificial Intelligence The demise of Rethink Robotics shows how hard it is to make machines truly smart The company’s easy-to-use robots helped kick-start a big trend. So what happened? by Will Knight 2018-10-04T15:50:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Rethink’s Sawyer Robot Just Got a Whole Lot Smarter The company that makes robots meant to collaborate with people has just added a ton of features in a big software upgrade. by Michael Reilly 2017-02-08T14:50:00-05:00
Connectivity How Robots Can Quickly Teach Each Other to Grasp New Objects It may take hours for a robot to figure out how to grasp a new object. But hundreds of robots could accelerate the process by sharing knowledge. by Will Knight 2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Can We Shape the Robot Revolution? A robotics pioneer warns that technologists must consider how advances in machine intelligence will eradicate jobs. by Will Knight 2015-10-06T10:06:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks by Observing Robot “training academies” could help industrial robots learn to perform complicated tasks by watching a human do them first. by Will Knight 2015-10-02T12:20:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Researchers Employ Baxter Robot to Help the Blind Robots could help the visually impaired do things like determine which bus pass to use. by Mark Harris 2015-09-01T11:01:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering A new approach to robot learning was tested in Minecraft, the popular open-ended computer game. by Will Knight 2015-07-13T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Rethinking the Manufacturing Robot A company that makes robots designed to work closely with humans has a new version that addresses the limitations of its first effort. by Mike Orcutt 2015-04-27T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates Even conventional industrial robots are becoming safer to work around, making them more likely to collaborate with humans. by Will Knight 2014-04-23T13:00:00-04:00
Business Impact Small Factories Give Baxter the Robot a Cautious Once-Over Rethink Robotics invented a $22,000 humanoid robot that competes with low-wage workers. by Antonio Regalado 2013-01-16T00:00:00-05:00
