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Agile Robots is training its robots using footage of people performing tasks, Bloomberg reports, citing the company’s chief executive. The German startup says the approach could help address a shortage of data holding back industrial automation.
Why it mattersThe practical idea is to use human demonstrations as training material for machines. That puts the focus on a persistent challenge in robotics: gathering enough examples of real tasks for robots to learn from. Bloomberg’s report gives this as the chief executive’s account. The useful test is whether filming people doing the work can provide robots with the data needed to handle it reliably.
Discuss: Should robot makers rely more on people’s recorded demonstrations to train machines, or invest in collecting data directly from robots in real workplaces?
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