Using language to teach a robot how to manipulate a tool (VIDEO)
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You can see this robotic arm is pushing a tool. It’s one of four tasks Princeton researchers gave the simulated arm. They also asked it to lift the tool; use it to sweep a cylinder along a table; and hammer – or try to hammer -- a peg into a hole. In a new approach to robot tool manipulation, they found that human-language descriptions of tools could help the robot learn to use the tools faster, and boost its performance on a test set of unfamiliar tools. The research is part of an effort to improve robots’ ability to function in novel situations that differ from their training environments.
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Allen Z. Ren et al./Aaron Nathans
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