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Robots are beginning to learn new skills through apps, not physical hardware upgrades

OpenMind, a robotics software company, has launched a new robot app store designed to let humanoid and quadruped robots gain new skills and abilities. The platform is live now and aims to eventually ...
Purdue University

Improving robots’ social skills: Purdue professor programs robots for improved nonverbal communication to better support humans

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...
Ars Technica

Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills

Robots like Atlas, Spot, and Stretch have amazed people with natural, life-like agility and body balance. What they were lacking, though, was a way to quickly connect this natural movement to ...
SiliconANGLE

Ambi Robotics advances physical AI by licensing its hard-earned robot skills

Ambi Robotics Inc. is leaning on years of production-hardened operational experience in warehouse robotics by giving third-party robots the chance to license the essential skills needed to perform ...
techtimes

Robot Skill Library ASPIRE Gives Robots Memory: Handover Climbs to 92%

A multi-institution research team from NVIDIA, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UC Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon University released ASPIRE on June 29, 2026 — a ...