SCS researchers, including CSD's Guying Lin (shown), have developed a new scene-generation framework that creates physically realistic, simulation-ready 3D scenes from text prompts. PAT3D generates 3D ...

Alibaba's new AI model called RynnBrain is focused on powering robots. One video released by Alibaba's DAMO Academy shows a robot identifying fruit and putting it in a basket. Nvidia and Google are ...

ABSTRACT: Formal-Object Tool (FOTool) is a software modelling approach that integrates formal specification and object oriented model. FOTool integrates the rigour of formal methods and the ease of ...

Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you have a unified concept of “dog” that isn’t tied to words or images ...

At CES 2026, Nvidia launched Alpamayo, a new family of open source AI models, simulation tools, and datasets for training physical robots and vehicles that are designed to help autonomous vehicles ...

Google DeepMind is teaming up with Boston Dynamics to give its humanoid robots the intelligence required to navigate unfamiliar environments and identify and manipulate objects—precisely the kinds of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

What’s happened? For people who can’t rely on sight, a new AI tool is stepping in as an extra set of senses. Researchers at Penn State have developed an app called NaviSense that can locate objects in ...

Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations. Zizhao Wang, Kaixin Wang, Li Zhao, Peter Stone, and Jiang Bian. @InProceedings{dyno_neurips2025, author = {Zizhao Wang and ...

The model is tasked with localizing the same object of interest in the query image. Here, the team visualizes a few inputs and outputs showing how the new method captures information and then ...

Say a person takes their French Bulldog, Bowser, to the dog park. Identifying Bowser as he plays among the other canines is easy for the dog owner to do while onsite. But if someone wants to use a ...