The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), the most ambitious robot competition in history, cleared a key milestone yesterday. The Pentagon’s research wing announced the results of the Virtual Robotics ...

A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did this by ...

Each year DARPA puts on an event known as the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). This year the game has changed a bit with the introduction of the first ever DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). What ...

Wonder Workshop, the education technology company that introduced Dash and Dot to classrooms, has developed a virtual world with a virtual robot for student access in remote classes. The digital ...

Seven teams of software gurus whose code deftly controlled a virtual, human-like robot through a virtual obstacle course were awarded a real humanoid to program for a real-world competition to develop ...

New program to support surgeon training for FDA-authorized Hominis ® Surgical System, the first-ever surgical robot with humanoid-shaped arms ZURICH & TEL AVIV, Israel & FORT LAUDERDALE, ...

As the next generation in computing springs forth, so too does the robots world – and with it, replacements for human beings in dangerous situations. What the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge this ...

On September 10, the Jiangsu Province Demonstrative Virtual Simulation Training Base was established and put into use at our ...

To train a robot to navigate a house, you either need to give it a lot of real time in a lot of real houses, or a lot of virtual time in a lot of virtual houses. The latter is definitely the better ...

An army of more than 4,000 marching doglike robots is a vaguely menacing sight, even in a simulation. But it may point the way for machines to learn new tricks. In the simulation, the machines—called ...