Could Robots Learn a Job by Watching People Work Through Smart Glasses?
A worker’s first-person recording could show a task from a useful angle.
What Is Imitation Learning in Robotics?
Imitation learning uses demonstrations as a starting point for learning behaviour.
What Is Reinforcement Learning, and Why Use Simulation?
Reinforcement learning is an approach in which a system learns from feedback about its actions.
What Are Vision-Language-Action Models?
Vision-language-action models connect visual observations and language with actions.
What Is Embodied Reasoning?
Embodied reasoning is about working out what to do in a physical setting.
How Could Multimodal AI Connect Video, Instructions and Robot Actions?
A practical robot task may involve several kinds of information at once.
What Are Robot Foundation Models?
A robot foundation model is intended to support a broader range of behaviours than a system trained for one narrow example.
Could You Train a Robot in a Virtual Copy of Your Home Before It Arrives?
Imagine a domestic robot arriving with some knowledge of the layout it will encounter.
What Happens When You Move the Furniture After Training a Robot?
A digital room is only useful while its assumptions remain relevant.
Could Scanning a Building Help Both Human Workers and Robots Prepare?
A digital building model could support more than one audience.
Could a Robot Practise Warehouse Tasks in VR Before Entering the Building?
A warehouse brings together shelves, routes, people and moving work.
Could Hospital Robots Learn Delivery Routes in a Virtual Hospital?
Moving supplies between hospital departments is a different problem from providing patient care.
Could Robots Practise Underground Inspection Routes Before Deployment?
An underground inspection robot needs more than a destination on a map.
Could Rescue Robots Train in Virtual Disaster Scenes?
A rescue robot may need to move through spaces that change unpredictably.
Could Robots Learn to Navigate a Changing Building Site?
A construction site does not stay still.
Could Virtual Worlds Become Training Schools for Real Robots?
A virtual robot school could contain many versions of a task: different rooms, object positions and interruptions.
What Is Sim-to-Real Transfer in Robot Training?
Sim-to-real transfer concerns taking learning or behaviour developed in simulation into a physical system.
How Do You Check Whether a Robot’s Virtual Training Works in Reality?
A robot completing a virtual task is a promising demonstration, not the end of testing.
Could Synthetic Training Data Help Robots Prepare for Unusual Situations?
Some situations are difficult to collect repeatedly in the real world.
Could a Human Guide a Robot Through an Unfamiliar Task Using VR?
Remote robot operation could let a human inspect a machine’s view and guide a supported action from elsewhere.