Teaching a robot arm to pick up a new object used to require thousands of practice runs. Google DeepMind says it has cut that number to roughly 100, a shift that could reshape how quickly machines ...

To help solve this problem, Generalist has relied on “data hands,” a set of wearable pincers that capture micro-movements and visual information as humans perform manual tasks. Generalist now claims ...

We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT “robots,” but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots. After announcing Gemini Robotics earlier this year, Google ...

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap possible is Google’s Gemini family of AI models. Instead of being ...

When ChatGPT first arrived, we got a text-based chatbot that could attempt to reasonably answer any question, even if it got things wrong (it still does, as hallucinations have not disappeared). It ...

The idea of robots, for me at least, always conjures sci-fi pictures of anthropomorphic beings walking around, talking, and acting very cold and unfeeling. But Apple’s recently published research ...