A robotic arm has mastered the surprisingly complex task of sink washing, showing off its ability to learn. With the help of an AI model trained in surgery videos, a robot system has successfully carried out difficult surgical tasks as skillfully as a human. Researchers decided to let their robotic arms learn to do the task by observing someone else doing it.
Researchers developed a cleaning sponge equipped with force and position sensors and had a person use it to clean just the front edge of a sink that had been sprayed with dyed gel imitating dirt. They then used the data to train a neural network and then fed those patterns to the robot and let them inform its movements as it sets out about the task.
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