Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

Explore how vision-language-action models like Helix, GR00T N1, and RT-1 are enabling robots to understand instructions and act autonomously.

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Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence lab is debuting two new models focused on robotics, which will help developers train robots to respond to unfamiliar scenarios — a longstanding challenge in the ...

Consumers rely on e-commerce platforms to deliver groceries, electronics, apparel and more everyday. And while the number of deliveries is skyrocketing — by 2027, 23% of American retail purchases are ...

Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots. By Kevin Roose Kevin Roose is a technology columnist, and co-hosts the Times podcast ...

Disney Research is working on a new method to create life-like movements in a robot. This week, robot enthusiast Lukas ...

Early demos relied heavily on remote human operators for Neo, but the man behind the machine says Neo is getting better at doing things on its own. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a ...

Humans, like primates, are one of only a few species on Earth that can look at someone doing something and then learn from it — monkey see, monkey do. But just because that skill is somewhat unique in ...

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the ...