Researchers are helping robots teach themselves to open dishwashers and doors

You’ve surely seen all of those videos of robots opening and walking through doors. The dirty little secret is that most or all of them involved a good bit of human hand holding. That can come in the form of manual remote guidance wherein a user remotely controls the process in real-time or a guided training, in which the robot is walked through the process once so it can mimic the activity exactly the next time.

New research from ETH Zurich, however, points to a model that requires “minimal manual guidance.” It’s effectively a three step process. First the user describes the scene and action. Second, the system plans a somewhat convoluted route and third, it refines the route into a minimal viable path.


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