Robot Is In Ur Kitchen, Deconstructin’ Ur Omelettes
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 8 of May , 2008 at 3:59 am
Sylvain Calinon, who we’ve featured on BotJunkie before (twice, in fact), sent us an email talking about some new work from the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at EPFL. They’ve been working on robot (controlled with a Wiimote) that can be interactively taught to perform tasks. In this case, the robot is taught to prepare an omelette, which is way WAY more impressive than it sounds. Check it out:
Teaching a robot in this manner can obviously be frustrating at times, but research like this is critical for practical home robotics. Relying on custom programming just isn’t versatile enough for the tasks that robots are going to be asked to do, and interactive (and adaptive!) learning is, after all, how we humans teach ourselves and each other. Ideally, a future iteration of this robot would simply be able to watch you perform a task, and interpolate how to do it itself, or even how to provide meaningful assistance. And even more ideally, they’ll be just as spunky as this little guy.
[ LASA @ EPFL ] (Thanks, Sylvain C.)
Category: Artificial Intelligence, Research
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Comment by Joh
Made Wednesday, 21 of May , 2008 at 4:46 am
Robots with knives scare me!
Comment by Khimaira
Made Monday, 11 of August , 2008 at 1:58 pm
Very cool! And a very cute little robot. That was excellent.
Lets try to avoid arming the robots, however 0.0