Engineers have built robots that are capable of learning new skills by watching videos of humans performing them.
A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) developed a model that allowed robots to perform household tasks like opening drawers and picking up knives after watching a video of the action.
The Visual-Robotics Bridge (VRB) method requires no human oversight and can result in new skills being learned in just 25 minutes.
“The robot can learn where and how humans interact with different objects through watching videos,” said Deepak Pathak, an assistant professor at CMU’s Robotics Institute.
“From this knowledge, we can train a model that enables two robots to complete similar tasks in varied environments.”
The VRB model allows the robot to learn how to perform the actions shown in a video, even if it is in a different setting.
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