One of the biggest challenges for robots is something that humans can do so easily we don't even see it as a challenge. When we walk through our home if we see something like a mug on the table we can ...

Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a different story when new objects are thrown into the mix. To overcome this frustrating ...

Stanford researchers have developed an innovative computer vision model that recognizes the real-world functions of objects, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...