AI System Enables Robots to Easily Manipulate Thousands of Objects
CAMBRIDGE, MA—In an effort to help machines replicate human abilities, a team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new AI system that could give robots the same dexterity as people.
The new model-free framework can learn to reorient objects with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards, in a step towards more human-like manipulation. It can manipulate more than 2,000 geometrically different objects in both cases. This new ability to manipulate anything could help the hand quickly pick-and-place objects in specific ways and locations and even generalize to unseen objects.