{"id":179208,"date":"2023-12-26T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/gathering-more-effective-human-demonstrations-to-teach-robots-new-skills"},"modified":"2023-12-26T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:45:25","slug":"gathering-more-effective-human-demonstrations-to-teach-robots-new-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/gathering-more-effective-human-demonstrations-to-teach-robots-new-skills","title":{"rendered":"Gathering more effective human demonstrations to teach robots new skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gathering-more-effective-human-demonstrations-to-teach-robots-new-skills3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To effectively assist humans in real-world settings, robots should be able to learn new skills and adapt their actions based on what users require them to do at different times. One way to achieve this would be to design computational approaches that allow robots to learn from human demonstrations, for instance observing videos of a person washing dishes and learning to repeat the same sequence of actions.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of British Columbia, Carnegie Mellon University, Monash University and University of Victoria recently set out to gather more <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/reliable+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">reliable data<\/a> to train robots via demonstrations. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2310.13083\">posted<\/a> to the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, shows that the data they gathered can significantly improve the efficiency with which robots learn from the demonstrations of human users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobots can build cars, gather the items for shopping orders in busy warehouses, vacuum floors, and keep the hospital shelves stocked with supplies,\u201d Maram Sakr, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore. \u201cTraditional robot programming systems require an expert programmer to develop a robot controller that is capable of such tasks while responding to any situation the robot may face.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To effectively assist humans in real-world settings, robots should be able to learn new skills and adapt their actions based on what users require them to do at different times. One way to achieve this would be to design computational approaches that allow robots to learn from human demonstrations, for instance observing videos of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179208","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}