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Re:RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills by Animats on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:39PM (#37170199)
The 12 skills are

- Flap open/close (oven door)

- Slide open/close (drawer)

- Slide in/out (slideable shelf)

- Cap open/close (screw caps)

- Pick/place (for relatively easy situations on flat surfaces, not bin picking)

- Wipe

"Wipe" doesn't have a reverse operation, and #12 is not illustrated.

The main thing here is that the robot has much force sensing, and interpreting that data is hard. So they had people do this with a teleoperator with force feedback, and fed that into a machine learning system. What this is really about is how to use force feedback data effectively. People have struggled with this for key-in-lock and part assembly for decades.

Seems like good work on a longstanding hard problem, but not a breakthrough.

Re:RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills by msla on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:47PM (#37170587)
> "Wipe" doesn't have a reverse operation

Wax on/Wax off obviously.

Re:RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills by have_faith on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:16AM (#37173614)
Still no nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills...
Re:RoboAgent: A universal agent with 12 Skills by projektfu on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:33AM (#37174268)
I'm sure the team doesn't want to add competition to the dating pool.