Intrinsic motivation, a concept drawn from behavioural science, has gained significant traction in robotic research as a means to stimulate exploratory behaviour in the absence of explicit external ...

Standing amid hundreds of people in the rotunda of Chicago's iconic Museum of Science and Industry, Ritika Ghosh (MSR '23) felt her confidence building. Ghosh was teaching people of all ages about a ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

Hang Yin’s high school experience opened his eyes to the future of robotics that he now is helping to mold. Hang Yin (MSR ‘23) was in high school when he founded a robotics team to participate in the ...

Explore how robotics technology trends and automation robotics are transforming manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics with ...

With growing shortages of healthcare professionals, medical robotics offer a solution to improve precision, reduce strain and increase access to high-quality care.

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

While it's not ready to join the workforce yet, Atlas, an AI-powered humanoid, is learning how to do human tasks.

For us today, it has found its way into almost every aspect of living, and for our children in the future that is fast approaching - it will be indispensable. There are many more reasons why if your ...

Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is a severe disease that occurs when a vein in the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye ...