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 …
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