The car stacking systems, provided by companies such as Hercules Carparking Systems and Klaus Multiparking, cost between $30,000 and $60,000 per space to install.

Tasked with lifting and stacking rectangular objects, the Sawyer successfully lifted 80% of the time and stacked 60% of the time, and 80% and 40% of the time when those objects were positioned in ...

For example, robots struggle to perform what’s called “mechanical search,” which is when they have to identify and pick up an object from within a pile of other objects.

Now the company has perfected its Handle robot so it can stack heavy boxes as if they were blocks in an extreme version of Tetris. The original Handle robot was created in 2017 as a research robot.

Positive reinforcement not only worked to help the robot teach itself to stack blocks, with the point system the robot just as quickly learned several other tasks—even how to play a simulated ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a robot which uses the latest machine learning computer vision to play everyone’s favorite tower-toppling game, Jenga ...

No robot can reproduce the way that algal cells, begonias, and people can. However, an automaton that’s little more than a stack of blocks has shown that it, too, can make more of its own kind.