UChicago scientists team up with Chicago Public Schools to test if robots need fictional personalities to teach effectively ...

A humanoid robot rallies tennis shots with a human player in real time, using AI to track and respond without scripts or ...

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has rapidly emerged as a powerful approach for enabling robots to acquire adaptive, data-driven behaviors in real-world ...

New AI platform enables robots to learn and replicate real human movement, powering next-gen humanoid systems, ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Social by nature, humans interact in multiple ways—through voice, vision and touch. Reflecting these humanistic qualities, robotic capabilities are improving, and as such, human-robot interaction will ...

The researchers developed round fluffy robots with motorized ribcages that can simulate breathing by expanding and contracting. More than 100 participants held these robots, which breathed in a ...

We’ve seen plenty of robot appendages designed to decrease exertion, from futuristic exoskeletons that can allow you to climb thousands of steps without breaking a sweat to arm braces that can take ...