Robots with increasingly precise dexterity are becoming essential in everyday life and industrial settings, from assembling tiny smartphone components to assisting doctors in surgery. However, ...

Robots on factory floors may soon be able to learn precise assembly tasks from a single demonstration by a human worker, ...

Xiaomi is best known for smartphones, smart home gear, and the occasional electric vehicle update. Now it wants a place in robotics research too. The company has announced Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an ...

Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too. Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, ...

Microsoft Research’s Mirage stores 3D scene data directly in diffusion latent space, cutting GPU memory 55x and generation ...

Following a string of controversies stemming from technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI has announced its latest family of image-generation models. The new Stable Diffusion ...

Robots are already being used in a growing range of industries, including dining, health care, and construction. While they previously relied on rule-based, reactive systems, the emergence of world ...

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael ...

The perception of images has gradually shifted from human visual cognition to the processing and analysis of images and multidimensional data by computers. Image segmentation is an application in the ...

Robotic systems often struggle to adapt to dynamic, unstructured environments due to top-down design constraints based on human assumptions. Inspired by biological morphogenesis, this study introduces ...