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A Revolution in How Robots Learn
A future generation of robots will not be programmed to complete specific tasks. Instead, they will use A.I. to teach themselves.
At Google, as at many of the leading academic and industrial research labs, you can start to feel as if you’re in a droid repair shop in “Star Wars.” In Mountain View, while I was watching one of the ALOHA s in action, a friendly-looking little wheeled bot, reminiscent of something from “ WALL-E,” stood by. driving this remarkable display, called π₀, can reportedly control half a dozen different embodiments, and can with one policy solve multiple tasks that might challenge an ALOHA: bagging groceries, assembling a box, clearing a dinner table. Ryan Luke Johns, a lead researcher on the project, runs a company called Gravis Robotics, whose motto is “Tap your finger, move a mountain.” He foresees that “adaptive reuse” of materials could displace concrete, and that construction will become cheaper and more charming.
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