I’ve written previously about various projects that aim to achieve this, such as the MIT lab for collaborative waiters, the European CARLOS project that is putting collaborative robots to work in shipyards and the improv jazz robot being developed by the US Defense Department.Ī Brown University project, codenamed Baxter, is building on both the human driven and robot driven approaches to learning. Robots teaching robotsĪ more interesting trend however is where robots begin to teach one another.

They have developed an online game that allows volunteers to train a robot to perform various tasks and respond to normal language.Įach iteration of a task is stored in an extensive central brain called RoboBrain that is then made available to a wide range of robots. One method for doing this is the TellMeDave project from Cornell University researchers.

A central aspect of the rise of automation in recent years has been the growing proficiency by which robots are capable of learning from their experiences.

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