MIT teaches robots to adapt

Most commercial robotic arms perform what roboticists call “pick and place” tasks: The arm picks up an object in one location and places it in another. General-purpose household robots, however, would have to be able to manipulate objects of any shape, left in any location. And today, commercially available robots don’t have anything like the dexterity of the human hand.

At this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the premier robotics conference, students in the Learning and Intelligent Systems Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will present a pair of papers showing how household robots could use a little lateral thinking to compensate for their physical shortcomings.

Here we see MIT senior Annie Holladay demonstrate and describe how her algorithm helps the robot adapt by using both of its arms instead of just one.

Find out more about the research: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/teaching-robots-lateral-thinking-0225.html

Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News

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24 responses to “MIT teaches robots to adapt”

  1. Jim Morrison Avatar
    Jim Morrison

    Yes, i’m sure we …
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  2. gameplayer502 Avatar
    gameplayer502

    Anybody else notice …
    Anybody else notice that she’s hot? Lol?

  3. mmbendou23 Avatar
    mmbendou23

    Good luck with your …
    Good luck with your research?

  4. Weslley Hordman Avatar
    Weslley Hordman

    the future is …
    the future is MATRIX or TERMINATOR
    ?

  5. signboyy Avatar
    signboyy

    one step closer to …
    one step closer to robot? butlers

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    divineagent

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    stema84

    Am I the only one …
    Am I the only one who? she reminds me of overly attached girlfriend? 🙂 She’s cute!

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    anonymusss666

    The girl? is awfull …
    The girl? is awfull , and the robot is going to take the world !

  9. stittastutta Avatar
    stittastutta

    They’ve? adapted.
    They’ve? adapted.

  10. r0meyrome Avatar
    r0meyrome

    We? are so …
    We? are so primitive right now with great potential it seems

  11. Wendy Holladay Avatar
    Wendy Holladay

    goal met, my? …
    goal met, my? daughter already has and will go further than me. she is amazing.

  12. roidroid Avatar
    roidroid

    :P?
    :P?

  13. Walzounet Avatar
    Walzounet

    it’s? about …
    it’s? about adaption. The lego is just an example.

  14. roidroid Avatar
    roidroid

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    Oh…. well, good. I’m glad someone knows howto protect a nation from lego blocks, coz i’m drawing a blank here.
    If a lego block army were to invade, i’d just? be all…. dude, what? Meanwhile the army will be all CODE 8 CODE 8! THIS IS IT GENTLEMEN!

  15. Evie Adams Avatar
    Evie Adams

    Annie, you’re …
    Annie, you’re awesome!!!?

  16. Michelle Rybak Avatar
    Michelle Rybak

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    dat? ass

  17. Walzounet Avatar
    Walzounet

    Because most of …
    Because most of this technology is first? use by army.

  18. brandonall Avatar
    brandonall

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    Fernando lopez soria

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    skillasaurus707

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  21. babyshaker0007 Avatar
    babyshaker0007

    It gives my heart …
    It gives my heart hope to see a? young lady who is also strikingly beautiful making meaningful contributions to this field and science in general!

  22. roidroid Avatar
    roidroid

    Solving problems …
    Solving problems before the rest of the world? even hears about them.
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    mralexsduarte

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  24. snowballeffect Avatar
    snowballeffect

    I always imagine? ” …
    I always imagine? “AI” work to be very tedious, using human experience to foresee as many possible situations as we can. Is this the same, or is the algorithm actually allowing the robot to learn and build upon what it’s learning?

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