As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

From sorting objects in a warehouse to navigating furniture while vacuuming, robots today use sensors, software control systems, and moving parts to perform tasks. The harder the task or more complex ...

Concepts of Robot Programming introduces the methods that engineers use to train robots to perform manufacturing tasks and the ideas behind those methods. Programming methods include online ...

Robots can be finicky learners. Historically, they've required precise, step-by-step directions to complete basic tasks, and tend to call it quits when things go off-script, like after dropping a tool ...

Nvidia Corp. today detailed Eureka, an artificial intelligence system that can automatically train robots to perform new tasks. In an internal evaluation, the chipmaker used Eureka to teach 10 ...