Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know and ask for clarification from a human. Modern robots know how to sense their ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

Covariant, a robotics start-up, is designing technology that lets robots learn skills much like chatbots do. By combining camera and sensory data with the enormous amounts of text used to train ...