The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing ...

Michigan Technological University's Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab brought home an unprecedented win in the international Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge. Their victory could set a ...

Home robotics is entering a more demanding phase. The question is no longer whether a robot can execute an impressive isolated behavior under tightly prepared conditions. The real test is whether it ...

Navigating without a map is a difficult task for robots, especially when they can't reliably determine where they are. A new AI-powered solution helps robots overcome this challenge by training them ...

Ground-based robots are typically used for missions where direct human involvement is too expensive, too dangerous, or just ineffective. Often, the robots must be able to operate autonomously, using ...

The proposed VLM-based human-guided mobile robot navigation approach aims to enable humans to use natural language instructions to guide the industrial robot to perform manufacturing tasks in an ...