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A way to let robots learn by listening will make them more useful
For robots to move beyond warehouses and into homes, they’ll need to navigate using more than just vision.
They first built a system for collecting audio data, consisting of a GoPro camera and a gripper with a microphone designed to filter out background noise. To test how much more successful a robot can be if it’s capable of “listening,” the researchers chose four tasks: flipping a bagel in a pan, erasing a whiteboard, putting two Velcro strips together, and pouring dice out of a cup. In each task, sounds provide clues that cameras or tactile sensors struggle with, like knowing if the eraser is properly contacting the whiteboard or whether the cup contains dice.
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