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This robot can figure out how to open almost any door on its own
A robot that can learn to open most types of doors, cabinets, drawers and refrigerators – without human direction – may pave the way for your future robot butler
A wheeled robot set loose on a college campus has figured out how to open all kinds of doors and drawers while rolling around in the real world. “You want the robots to work autonomously… without relying on humans to keep giving examples at test time for every new kind of scenario that you’re in,” says Deepak Pathak at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pennsylvania. Pathak and his colleagues initially trained the robot through imitation learning, providing visual examples of how to open objects such as doors, cabinets, drawers and refrigerators.
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