How to make robots that we can trust Published: August 28, 2017 9:25pm EDT Self-driving cars, personal assistants, cleaning robots, smart homes - these are just some examples of autonomous systems.

Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining.

For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, we’ll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough.

The new training method doesn't use sensors or onboard control tweaks, but a single camera that watches the robot's movements and uses visual data.

Here's how 3D printing makes the robots that make everything else One of the largest industrial robotics companies in the world demonstrates how rapid prototyping has already disrupted manufacturing.

To get the most mileage of out your robot, add the dimension of mobility by incorporating a linear seventh axis.

Your smartphone is probably powerful enough to be the eyes, ears and brain of a robot. Now Intel researchers have released a free design that can make this possible.

The issues he’s highlighting really come down to product design. [Benjie] points out that programming robots is super hard, but it’s also hard in more than one way and for more than one reason.

Winfield describes his robots as having a little bit of “common sense.” For the moment, robots can only use simulation theory of mind in relatively simple situations.

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