{"id":111789,"date":"2020-08-23T02:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/facebook-is-training-robot-assistants-to-hear-as-well-as-see"},"modified":"2020-08-23T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:18:11","slug":"facebook-is-training-robot-assistants-to-hear-as-well-as-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/facebook-is-training-robot-assistants-to-hear-as-well-as-see","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is training robot assistants to hear as well as see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-is-training-robot-assistants-to-hear-as-well-as-see.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June 2019, Facebook\u2019s AI lab, FAIR, released AI Habitat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2019\/06\/14\/134939\/facebook-built-stunning-virtual-spaces-for-its-ai-programs-to-explore\/\">a new simulation platform<\/a> for training AI agents. It allowed agents to explore various realistic virtual environments, like a furnished apartment or cubicle-filled office. The AI could then be ported into a robot, which would gain the smarts to navigate through the real world without crashing.<\/p>\n<p>In the year since, FAIR has rapidly pushed the boundaries of its work on \u201cembodied AI.\u201d In a <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/new-milestones-in-embodied-ai\">blog post today<\/a>, the lab has announced three additional milestones reached: two new algorithms that allow an agent to quickly create and remember a map of the spaces it navigates, and the addition of sound on the platform to train the agents to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019, Facebook\u2019s AI lab, FAIR, released AI Habitat, a new simulation platform for training AI agents. It allowed agents to explore various realistic virtual environments, like a furnished apartment or cubicle-filled office. The AI could then be ported into a robot, which would gain the smarts to navigate through the real world without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111797,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111789\/revisions\/111797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}