{"id":205169,"date":"2025-02-01T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/using-ai-researchers-devise-a-fast-and-precise-way-to-teach-robots-complicated-skills"},"modified":"2025-02-01T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:29:44","slug":"using-ai-researchers-devise-a-fast-and-precise-way-to-teach-robots-complicated-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/using-ai-researchers-devise-a-fast-and-precise-way-to-teach-robots-complicated-skills","title":{"rendered":"Using AI, researchers devise a fast and precise way to teach robots complicated skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-ai-researchers-devise-a-fast-and-precise-way-to-teach-robots-complicated-skills.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine\u2019s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip.<\/p>\n<p>Through what might have seemed to a casual viewer like a miracle of physics, the whip struck in precisely the right spot to send a single block flying out from the stack while the rest of the tower remained structurally sound.<\/p>\n<p>This task, known as \u201cJenga whipping,\u201d is a hobby pursued by people with the dexterity and reflexes to pull it off. Now, it\u2019s been mastered by robots, thanks to a novel, AI-powered training method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levine\u2019s Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip. Through what might have seemed to a casual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205169","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=205169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}