Most of the time, robots grabbing the headlines boil down to a machine doing one very specific thing in a very controlled lab, followed by a promise that this somehow changes everything. Normally, I ...

Quick, predictable, and consistent activities provide a foundation to get students thinking and ready to learn.

Multi-task learning (MTL) represents a paradigm shift in the way machine learning models are developed, whereby multiple related tasks are learned simultaneously. By leveraging shared representations ...

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.

Robot perception and cognition often rely on the integration of information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, ...