The Robot Report

AgiBot deploys its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system

AgiBot said its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system lets robots learn new skills in minutes on a pilot production line.
TMCnet

AgiBot Achieves First Real-World Deployment of Reinforcement Learning in Industrial Robotics

SHANGHAI, Nov. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AgiBot, a robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, announced a key milestone with the successful deployment of its Real-World Reinforcement ...
Unite.AI

The End of Tabula Rasa: How Pre-Trained World Models are Redefining Reinforcement Learning

For a long time, the core idea in reinforcement learning (RL) was that AI agents should learn every new task from scratch, like a blank slate. This "tabula rasa" approach led to amazing achievements, ...
Science News

Reinforcement learning AI might bring humanoid robots to the real world

ChatGPT and other AI tools are upending our digital lives, but our AI interactions are about to get physical. Humanoid robots trained with a particular type of AI to sense and react to their world ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...
inc42

What Is Reinforcement Learning? Here’s All You Need to Know

Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning concerned with how an intelligent agent can learn through trial and error to make optimal decisions in its ...
Wired

Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...