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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.

Universal Robots (UR), a supplier of collaborative robots (cobots), has now integrated the Standard Robot Command Interface (SRCI) into its software. UR said it is among the first cobot vendors to ...

General purpose robots are established tools in a variety of industrial applications. Current household robots, however, are limited in capabilities and purpose. One reason for this is the programming ...

Nvidia Corp. today detailed Eureka, an artificial intelligence system that can automatically train robots to perform new tasks. In an internal evaluation, the chipmaker used Eureka to teach 10 ...

ChatGPT has been put to all manner of silly uses since it first became available online. [Engineering After Hours] decided to see if its coding skills were any chop, and put it to work programming … ...

Using such AI systems, CaP can generate code that enables a robot to perform tasks specified by the user. Google researchers tested CaP’s capabilities in a series of internal evaluations.

Besides using one modality to perform intuitive robot programming, more interactions can be used to increase the acceptance and comprehensibility of the teaching process. In (Liu et al. (2020)), a ...