Retail sales inched up in March after two straight months of declines, but gains remained moderate amid consumer concerns about rising tariffs. Delve into the state of AI in the retail sector ...

Amazon's new Vulcan robot uses physical AI to carefully stow and pick everything from socks to fragile electronics at ...

Two years ago, when visiting research colleagues in Uppsala, Sweden, we were asked a deceptively simple question: “What does ...

Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering are presenting 24 papers at the 2025 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Apr. 24-28, one of the premier global ...

The work of the robotics lab includes using robot ‘swarms,’ working together autonomously. And there’s also a RaccoonBot.

From assisting in car manufacturing, humanoid robots are now stepping into the role of selling vehicles, marking a new shift in automotive retail. At the Shanghai Auto Show, automotive brands ...

Tesla’s production of Optimus, a robot that promises to take over household chores, has been disrupted by China’s curbs on rare earth exports, introduced by Beijing earlier this month in an ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that production of the company's Optimus humanoid robot has been delayed due to China’s new export restrictions on rare earth magnets—critical components in ...

assistant professor of computer science. This translation task still faces a broader challenge, however: Humans move too fluidly for a robot to track and mimic, and training robots with video ...

Cornell University researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence – called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) – that allows robots ...

Credit: Cornell University "Our work is like translating French to English—we're translating any given task from human to robot," said senior author Sanjiban Choudhury, assistant professor of computer ...

Traditional robots struggle with unpredictable scenarios and require extensive training data, but RHyME allows robots to adapt by drawing on previous ... assistant professor of computer science. This ...