MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.

"This work is a departure from how robots are programmed today. The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks.

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As the name suggests, robot lawn mowers are small, self-propelling, Roomba-like mowers that cruise around one's yard and cut the grass. They typically run on rechargeable batteries and can sense ...

ANYmal-D, the badminton-playing quadruped robot from ETH Zurich, combines artificial intelligence with whole-body coordination to rally with human players for up to 10 shots.