The Reachy Mini is an open source robot developed collaboratively by Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics, designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities in robotics and programming. Powered by a ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where progress is driven less by isolated breakthroughs and more by accessible, high-quality AI building blocks. In that context, Alibaba’s decision to open-source ...

The University of Texas at Austin this week announced that it has opened its undergraduate robotics program to high school applicants. The honors program is one of the first in the U.S. that allows ...

Offline programming, or OLP, can accelerate robot deployment in high-mix, low-volume applications, explains the founder and ...

Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence models and software, announced today that it has acquired Pollen Robotics, the French startup behind the bug-eyed, two-armed, ...

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

The Allen Institute for AI released a new AI robotics system that uses novel approaches to help robots navigate messy real-world environments, while making all of the model’s code, data, and training ...

Sean Lidy points to his name on the wall where the GEARS Youth Robotics Center celebrates where its students have gone since their days at the technology-focused community center. The program started ...