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"Vestri" Robots can see into their future

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Channel: Rajamanickam Antonimuthu · 2017 · Science & Technology

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UC Berkeley researchers have developed a robotic learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before. In the future, this technology could help self-driving cars anticipate future events on the road and produce more intelligent robotic assistants in homes, but the initial prototype focuses on learning simple manual skills entirely from autonomous play.

Using this technology, called visual foresight, the robots can predict what their cameras will see if they perform a particular sequence of movements. These robotic imaginations are still relatively simple for now – predictions made only several seconds into the future – but they are enough for the robot to figure out how to move objects around on a table without disturbing obstacles. Crucially, the robot can learn to perform these tasks without any help from humans or prior knowledge about physics, its environment or what the objects are.


Video Source: UC Berkeley [Creative commons video availabe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li_vZVpiFSA ]

News Source: http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/12/04/robots-see-into-their-future/

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