{"id":25589,"date":"2016-05-11T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-robots-teaching-itself-to-twirl-a-stick"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:23:40","slug":"this-robots-teaching-itself-to-twirl-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-robots-teaching-itself-to-twirl-a-stick","title":{"rendered":"This Robot\u2019s Teaching Itself to Twirl a Stick"},"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\/IN7VFquI7ow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever tried to learn how to spin a pencil in your hand, you\u2019ll know it takes some concerted effort\u2014but it\u2019s even harder for a robot. Now, though, researchers have finally built a \u2018bot that can learn to do it.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that tasks like spinning a stick are hard is that a lot happens in a very short time. As the stick moves, the forces exerted by the hand can easily send it flying out of control if they\u2019re not perfectly co-ordinated. Sensing where the stick is and varying the hand\u2019s motion is an awful lot for even the smartest algorithms to handle based on a list of rules.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-robots-teaching-itself-to-twirl-a-stick-1775963512?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-robots-teaching-itself-to-twirl-a-st...socialflow<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever tried to learn how to spin a pencil in your hand, you\u2019ll know it takes some concerted effort\u2014but it\u2019s even harder for a robot. Now, though, researchers have finally built a \u2018bot that can learn to do it. The reason that tasks like spinning a stick are hard is that a lot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25589","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61837,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25589\/revisions\/61837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}