The new Blue robot is specifically designed for the latter, and it should be much more affordable than other AI machines. Blue is being developed at the University of California-Berkeley, by a team ...

Researchers have created a new low-cost, human friendly robot named Blue, designed to use recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning to master intricate human tasks, ...

Global robot sales have doubled over the past five years, but the bots deployed in factories and warehouses today are pretty much the same as the ones we had decades ago. They’re powerful and precise ...

A new low-cost, human-friendly robot uses recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning to master intricate human tasks. Robots may have a knack for super-human strength ...

In a tiny lab at UC Berkeley, next to the whirring 3D printers on the wall, in front of an old Persian-rug-patterned couch, stands Blue the robot. It’s a pair of bulky humanoid arms—only with pincers ...

Robotics is an area of research with great potential to help people in their every day lives. The catch right now is that robots are expensive, complicated, and unable to do the basic things many want ...

The idea of having your own assistive robot in the home has been around for at least half a century, promising to usher us into a Jetsons-like future in which we can assign all manner of everyday ...

In such cases, BLUE utilizes its integrated buoyancy controllers to drop to the bottom, then uses its multimodal fins to walk along the gravel, sand or other underwater terrain. Each fin remains rigid ...

Robots may have a knack for super-human strength and precision, but they still struggle with some basic human tasks — like folding laundry or making a cup of coffee. Enter Blue, a new low-cost, ...