{"id":97358,"date":"2019-10-12T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/watch-an-ai-robot-program-itself-to-er-pick-things-up-and-push-them-around"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T18:03:00","slug":"watch-an-ai-robot-program-itself-to-er-pick-things-up-and-push-them-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/watch-an-ai-robot-program-itself-to-er-pick-things-up-and-push-them-around","title":{"rendered":"Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-an-ai-robot-program-itself-to-er-pick-things-up-and-push-them-around.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Vid<\/strong> Robots normally need to be programmed in order to get them to perform a particular task, but they can be coaxed into writing the instructions themselves with the help of machine learning, according to research <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/robotics.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/26\/eaav3150\">published<\/a> in Science.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Vicarious AI, a robotics startup based in California, USA, have built what they call a \u201cvisual cognitive computer\u201d (VCC), a software platform connected to a camera system and a robot gripper. Given a set of visual clues, the VCC writes a short program of instructions to be followed by the robot so it knows how to move its gripper to do simple tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumans are good at inferring the concepts conveyed in a pair of images and then applying them in a completely different setting,\u201d the paper states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vid Robots normally need to be programmed in order to get them to perform a particular task, but they can be coaxed into writing the instructions themselves with the help of machine learning, according to research published in Science. Engineers at Vicarious AI, a robotics startup based in California, USA, have built what they call [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97358","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=97358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}