Toyota Develops Household Robots That Learn Chores by Watching Humans
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Toyota is developing robots that can learn to do household chores by watching and copying humans. A robot learned to sweep by watching the author demonstrate.
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Machine learning techniques like diffusion models allow robots to determine the best next action based on many possibilities.
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Toyota hopes AI language models that power ChatGPT could help robots learn from YouTube videos to adapt to more tasks.
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Other big tech companies like Google DeepMind are also using language models to advance robot learning abilities.
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Researchers at Stanford built a low-cost mobile robot called ALOHA that can learn from a wider range of real-world experiences.