People's decisions are known to be influenced by past experiences, including the outcomes of earlier choices. For over a century, psychologists have been trying to shed light on the processes ...

The team has used this approach to rapidly train the bots in upwards of 60 small, mostly kitchen-based tasks so far – each relatively simple for the average adult human, but each requiring the robots ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.