Facebook AI Is Teaching Robots to Perceive, Understand, and Interact Through Touch
On November 1, Facebook AI Research shared its progress on developing AI systems that can understand and interact through touch.
Tag: Robotics Research
Google Brain’s DRL Helps Robots ‘Think While Moving’
The proposed concurrent DRL algorithm enables robots to take a broader and more long-term view of tasks and behaviours, and decide on their next action before the current one is completed.
Robot Lovers Rejoice! Fei-Fei Li Stanford Team Crowd-Sources World’s Largest Robot Manipulation Dataset
The crowdsourcing produced 111.25 hours of video from 54 non-expert demonstrators to build “one of the largest, richest, and most diverse robot manipulation datasets ever collected using human creativity and dexterity.”
Brown University Paper Shows Research Robot Vulnerability
Google Brain Research Scientist Ian Goodfellow has tweeted an alarm about IoT hacking of a particularly nightmarish type, after Brown University security researchers were able to remotely access and control a robot in a university research lab. The research also showed that many robotic labs worldwide may be vulnerable to such a takeover technique.