What changes when a robot “hand” is no longer tied to the arm it works for? A group of researchers with the names Xiao Gao ...

The goal is to accelerate the path to fully autonomous humanoid robots ... maybe even ones that are as smart as we are.

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...