{"id":133215,"date":"2021-12-28T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/toyotas-cleaning-robot-shows-off-its-new-skills"},"modified":"2021-12-28T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:25:28","slug":"toyotas-cleaning-robot-shows-off-its-new-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/toyotas-cleaning-robot-shows-off-its-new-skills","title":{"rendered":"Toyota\u2019s cleaning robot shows off its new skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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\/YGCwhjw-NTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Toyota\u2019s cleaning robot has demonstrated new skills, revealing an ability to detect clear objects and snap perfect selfies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>The challenge:<\/strong> While seeing a reflection in a toaster isn\u2019t going to stop us from knowing that it\u2019s a toaster, robots can be easily confused by reflections, as well as transparent objects, such as glasses and windows.<\/p>\n<p>Our houses are full of those tricky objects, so training robots to see them for what they are is key to bringing domestic bots into our homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyota\u2019s cleaning robot:<\/strong> To ensure Toyota\u2019s cleaning robot wouldn\u2019t be fooled by its own reflection, they developed a training method that helps it \u201cperceive the 3D geometry of the scene while also detecting objects and surfaces,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/pressroom.toyota.com\/toyota-research-institute-reaches-new-technical-milestones-in-robotics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota\u2019s cleaning robot has demonstrated new skills, revealing an ability to detect clear objects and snap perfect selfies. The challenge: While seeing a reflection in a toaster isn\u2019t going to stop us from knowing that it\u2019s a toaster, robots can be easily confused by reflections, as well as transparent objects, such as glasses and windows. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133215","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}