Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ...

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 ...

To help do all these jobs, the robot needs a list of instructions called a program. The computer uses the program to tell the robot how to move and what to do. The robot can only do what the program ...

Those who know Walt Perko agree that he is unconventional. As one enters his apartment in a senior community, a robotic skull atop a refrigerator lights up. At least 30 robots of several shapes and ...

Tim Jin (MSR '21) reflects on his independent project for Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program and what he learned from trying to make a robot emulate a chameleon. As ...

Calling all DMV-area roboticists, technologists, entrepreneurs and committed inventors: Always wanted to build your own robot but never quite got around to it? This could be that extra impetus you’re ...

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There are plenty of Arduino-based robots in the world, but actually building one is a bit tough if you're not familiar with Arduino programming. But a company called ArcBotics has created an ...