Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.
Robotics

Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.

Glass bottles and crystal bowls bend light in strange ways. Image processing networks often struggle to separate the boundaries of transparent objects from the background that shows through them. A new method sees such items more accurately.

April 1, 20202 min read
Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.
Robotics

Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.

Glass bottles and crystal bowls bend light in strange ways. Image processing networks often struggle to separate the boundaries of transparent objects from the background that shows through them. A new method sees such items more accurately.

April 1, 20202 min read
Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.
Robotics

Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.

Bored with your Spotify playlists? Let this robot singer/songwriter take you on a trip “Into Your Mind.” A music-composing, marimba-playing robot named Shimon has learned to write and sing its own lyrics, IEEE Spectrum reports.

March 25, 20202 min read
Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.
Robotics

Algorithm and Blues: Shimon is a musical robot that writes its own lyrics.

Bored with your Spotify playlists? Let this robot singer/songwriter take you on a trip “Into Your Mind.” A music-composing, marimba-playing robot named Shimon has learned to write and sing its own lyrics, IEEE Spectrum reports.

March 25, 20202 min read
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Robotics

AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.

Amputees can control a robotic hand with their thoughts — plus machine learning. University of Michigan researchers developed a system that uses signals from an amputee’s nervous system to control a prosthetic hand.

March 11, 20201 min read
AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.
Robotics

AI Gets a Grip: AI helps amputees control robotic hands.

Amputees can control a robotic hand with their thoughts — plus machine learning. University of Michigan researchers developed a system that uses signals from an amputee’s nervous system to control a prosthetic hand.

March 11, 20201 min read
Deep Learning for Object Tracking: AI for six-dimensional object tracking for robotics
Robotics

Deep Learning for Object Tracking: AI for six-dimensional object tracking for robotics

AI is good at tracking objects in two dimensions. A new model processes video from a camera with a depth sensor to predict how objects move through space.

February 26, 20202 min read
Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works
Robotics

Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works

Faster than a speeding skateboard! Able to dodge tall trees while chasing a dirt bike! It’s … an upgrade in the making from an innovative drone maker.

February 26, 20202 min read
Deep Learning for Object Tracking: AI for six-dimensional object tracking for robotics
Robotics

Deep Learning for Object Tracking: AI for six-dimensional object tracking for robotics

AI is good at tracking objects in two dimensions. A new model processes video from a camera with a depth sensor to predict how objects move through space.

February 26, 20202 min read
Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works
Robotics

Imitation Learning in the Wild: How a drone's obstacle avoidance system works

Faster than a speeding skateboard! Able to dodge tall trees while chasing a dirt bike! It’s … an upgrade in the making from an innovative drone maker.

February 26, 20202 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Robotics

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Robotics

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning
Robotics

Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning

Many people in the AI community focus on achieving flashy results, like building an agent that can win at Go or Jeopardy. This kind of work is impressive in terms of complexity.

January 1, 20202 min read
Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning
Robotics

Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning

Many people in the AI community focus on achieving flashy results, like building an agent that can win at Go or Jeopardy. This kind of work is impressive in terms of complexity.

January 1, 20202 min read
Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning
Robotics

Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning

We’ve had great success with supervised deep learning on labeled data. Now it’s time to explore other ways to learn: training on unlabeled data, lifelong learning, and especially letting models explore a simulated environment before transferring what they learn to the real world.

January 1, 20202 min read

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