Parenting a 3-year-old robot
Aug 2023, phys.org
RoboAgent, an artificial intelligence agent that leverages passive observations and active learning to enable a robot to acquire manipulation abilities on par with a toddler. The team's agent learns through a combination of self-experiences and passive observations contained in internet data. As a parent would guide their child, researchers teleoperated the robot through tasks to provide it with useful self-experiences.Our novel policy architecture allows our agents to reason even with limited experiences, using temporal chunks of movements instead of commonly used per-timestep actions, and learning from videos on the internet, akin to how babies acquire knowledge and behaviors by passively observing their surroundings.
via Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook: RoboAgent and RoboSet Project - Towards Sample Efficient Robot Manipulation with Semantic Augmentations and Action Chunking. Homanga Bharadhwaj et. al.
Post Script: Partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and Meta, which is exactly how you wanted this to happen.
