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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by Govindae on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:33PM (#14930822)
I've seen AI learn to walk in simulation, I've never seen one learn to tie a shoe.
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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by paganel on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:45PM (#14932580)
> I've never seen one learn to tie a shoe.

For what it's worth I for example only learned to tie my shoes when I was already 9 years old, while I had learned to read almost all by myself at 5 (my dad had taught me the letters of the alphabet).

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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by digi_owl on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:40PM (#14932547)
Because the developers have never seen the need...
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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by tnecniv on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:52PM (#14932646)
That's not quite right. Both of those problems are actually pretty related and very active areas of research in academia.
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