Robot "brains" are very different from human brains, and teaching robots how to do tasks is usually just a matter of writing the right code. It may sound simpler than the way humans learn, but it's ...

For all of the recent progress in machine intelligence, robots still struggle to adapt relatively simple tasks to new situations. Take, for example, picking up a mug and hanging it on a mug rack; even ...

Robots, much like children, are now using simple games to learn important skills. Pepper, SoftBank’s adorable humanoid robot, recently learned to play ball-in-a-cup (also called ring and pin) in an ...

BRETT taught itself to complete a series of motor tasks without pre-programmed details about its surroundings. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley ...

The Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks – also known as BRETT – is able to learn from trial and error in much the same way as human beings. The ...

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed algorithms that allow robots to learn by making mistakes -- just like a real person. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and ...