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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

Software Engineers Can Learn From Robots' New Manipulation Skills

Robots learn dexterous manipulation skills by imitating state-only observations in videos, reducing data & instrumentation needs, paving way for widespread adoption of advanced robotic capabilities.

This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Learning Prehensile Dexterity by Imitating and Emulating State-only Observations. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should subscribe to the AImodels.fyi newsletter or follow me on Twitter.

  
  
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This paper presents a novel approach to learning prehensile dexterity, which is the ability to grasp and manipulate objects, by imitating and emulating state-only observations.
The researchers developed a method that allows robots to learn complex grasping and manipulation skills from demonstration videos, without req...