New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

CAMBRIDGE, MA – A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what’s inside. Researchers from MIT, ...

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a new vision-based system that allows ...

For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle with a few basic human tasks. One of the most significant challenges is ...

To help humans to complete everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to reliably manipulate everyday objects that vary in shape, texture and size. Many conventional approaches to enable robotic ...

Picking up a simple object is intuitive for a human, but it's much trickier for a robot. Machines directed by artificial intelligence have historically found it very difficult to navigate awkwardly or ...