{"id":170234,"date":"2023-08-22T21:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-deep-learning-technique-to-improve-how-robots-grasp-objects"},"modified":"2023-08-22T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T02:22:45","slug":"a-deep-learning-technique-to-improve-how-robots-grasp-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-deep-learning-technique-to-improve-how-robots-grasp-objects","title":{"rendered":"A deep learning technique to improve how robots grasp objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-deep-learning-technique-to-improve-how-robots-grasp-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most adult humans are innately able to pick up objects in their environment and hold them in ways that facilitate their use. For instance, when picking up a cooking utensil, they would normally grab it from the side that will not be placed inside the cooking pot or pan.<\/p>\n<p>Robots, on the other hand, need to be trained on how to best pick up and hold objects while completing different tasks. This is often a tricky process, given that the robot might also come across objects that it never encountered before.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Bonn\u2019s Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) research group recently developed a new learning pipeline to improve a robotic arm\u2019s ability to manipulate objects in ways that better support their practical use. Their approach, introduced in a paper published on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>, could contribute to the development of robotic assistants that can tackle manual tasks more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most adult humans are innately able to pick up objects in their environment and hold them in ways that facilitate their use. For instance, when picking up a cooking utensil, they would normally grab it from the side that will not be placed inside the cooking pot or pan. Robots, on the other hand, need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170234","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}