New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what's inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, ...

To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures and sizes, without dropping them in undesired locations. Conventional ...

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

Researchers have revealed an intelligent robot that uses three-dimensional imaging and knowledge from the internet to find lost items.