{"id":117118,"date":"2020-12-14T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/new-deep-learning-method-helps-robots-become-jacks-of-all-trades"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:23:47","slug":"new-deep-learning-method-helps-robots-become-jacks-of-all-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/new-deep-learning-method-helps-robots-become-jacks-of-all-trades","title":{"rendered":"New Deep Learning Method Helps Robots Become Jacks-of-all-Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-deep-learning-method-helps-robots-become-jacks-of-all-trades.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Put a robot in a tightly-controlled environment and it can quickly surpass human performance at complex tasks, from building cars to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u3L8vGMDYD8\">playing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u3L8vGMDYD8\"> table tennis<\/a>. But throw these machines a curve ball and they\u2019re in trouble\u2014just check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo\">compilation<\/a> of some of the world\u2019s most advanced robots coming unstuck in the face of notoriously challenging obstacles like sand, steps, and doorways.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3L8vGMDYD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The reason robots tend to be so fragile is that the algorithms that control them are often manually designed. If they encounter a situation the designer didn\u2019t think of, which is almost inevitable in the chaotic real world, then they simply don\u2019t have the tools to react.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid advances in AI have provided a potential workaround by letting robots learn how to carry out tasks instead of relying on hand-coded instructions. A particularly promising approach is deep reinforcement learning, where the robot interacts with its environment through a process of trial-and-error and is rewarded for carrying out the correct actions. Over many repetitions it can use this feedback to learn how to accomplish the task at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put a robot in a tightly-controlled environment and it can quickly surpass human performance at complex tasks, from building cars to playing table tennis. But throw these machines a curve ball and they\u2019re in trouble\u2014just check out this compilation of some of the world\u2019s most advanced robots coming unstuck in the face of notoriously challenging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117118","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=117118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}