{"id":158341,"date":"2023-02-17T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/toyota-research-institutes-robots-leave-home"},"modified":"2023-02-17T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:25:55","slug":"toyota-research-institutes-robots-leave-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/toyota-research-institutes-robots-leave-home","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Research Institute\u2019s robots leave home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-research-institutes-robots-leave-home2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m probably just as guilty as everybody else,\u201d Toyota Research Institute\u2019s (TRI) senior vice president of robotics, Max Bajracharya, admits. \u201cIt\u2019s like, now our GPUs are better. Oh, we got machine learning and now you know we can do this. Oh, okay, maybe that was harder than we thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ambition is, of course, an important aspect of this work. But there\u2019s also a grand, inevitable tradition of relearning mistakes. The smartest people in the room can tell you a million times over why a specific issue hasn\u2019t been solved, but it\u2019s still easy to convince yourself that this time \u2014 with the right people and the right tools \u2014 things will just be different.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of TRI\u2019s in-house robotics team, the impossible task is the home. The lack of success in the category hasn\u2019t been for lack of trying. Generations of roboticists have agreed that there are plenty of problems waiting to be automated, but thus far, successes have been limited. Beyond the robotic vacuum, there\u2019s been little in the way of breakthrough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m probably just as guilty as everybody else,\u201d Toyota Research Institute\u2019s (TRI) senior vice president of robotics, Max Bajracharya, admits. \u201cIt\u2019s like, now our GPUs are better. Oh, we got machine learning and now you know we can do this. Oh, okay, maybe that was harder than we thought.\u201d Ambition is, of course, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158341","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=158341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}