Training robots to perform physical tasks is much more complicated than training artificial intelligence to write a paper.

What’s the difference between a Roomba and The Jetson’s robot maid Rosie? It’s not a joke, it’s a challenge University of Maryland doctoral student Seungjae “Jay” Lee is tackling in hopes of training ...

No matter how sophisticated they are, robots can often be indecisive and struggle with multi-step chores in the real world. For example, if you tell a robot to tidy a messy room, it might understand ...

Dependence on robots was also seen as a bad idea. The threat was that humans wouldn’t be able to function without them.