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Teaching robots like humans: 1000 tasks in 24 hours
Imagine teaching a robot 1000 tasks in just 24 hours. Imagine teaching robots just like you teach humans.
In fact, what if teaching a robot were as easy as showing it once?
Humans can learn new skills almost instantly by watching, trying, or receiving a quick explanation. Robots, historically, haven’t been so lucky. Training them often requires huge datasets with real or virtual data, massive engineering effort, and weeks or months of experimentation.
But that may be changing.
In this episode of TechFirst, host John Koetsier talks with Edward Johns, Director of the Robot Learning Lab at…
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