You’ve surely seen all of those videos of robots opening and walking through doors. The dirty little secret is that most or all of them involved a good bit of human hand holding. That can come in the ...

Researchers have developed a control system that helps make humanoid robots better handle tough, real-world tasks. Named FALCON, and developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), it helps ...

A wheeled robot set loose on a college campus has figured out how to open all kinds of doors and drawers while rolling around in the real world. The robot adapted to new challenges on its own – paving ...