{"id":23385,"date":"2016-03-10T23:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/googles-ai-systems-are-on-a-roll-as-robots-learn-the-best-way-to-pick-up-objects-video"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:42:26","slug":"googles-ai-systems-are-on-a-roll-as-robots-learn-the-best-way-to-pick-up-objects-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/googles-ai-systems-are-on-a-roll-as-robots-learn-the-best-way-to-pick-up-objects-video","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI systems are on a roll as robots learn the best way to pick up objects [Video]"},"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\/l8zKZLqkfII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As achievements go, learning how to pick up objects doesn\u2019t sound quite as impressive as <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5google.com\/2016\/03\/10\/alphago-deepmind-wins-twice\/\" target=\"_blank\">twice beating<\/a> the world Go champion \u2013 it is, after all, something the average toddler can do. But it\u2019s the fact that the robots themselves figured out the best way to do it using neural networks that makes this notable.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1603.02199v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Google report<\/a> spotted by <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/google\/2016\/03\/10\/technological-singularity-ftw\/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29\" target=\"_blank\">TNW<\/a> explains how the company let robot arms pick up a variety of different objects, using neural networks to learn by trial-and-error the best way to handle each. Some 800,000 goes later, the robots seemed to have it figured out pretty well \u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5google.com\/2016\/03\/10\/google-ai-robots-pick-up-objects\/\">http:\/\/9to5google.com\/2016\/03\/10\/google-ai-robots-pick-up-objects\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As achievements go, learning how to pick up objects doesn\u2019t sound quite as impressive as twice beating the world Go champion \u2013 it is, after all, something the average toddler can do. But it\u2019s the fact that the robots themselves figured out the best way to do it using neural networks that makes this notable. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62457,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23385\/revisions\/62457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}