Why Robots Should Learn to Build Crappy Ikea Furniture
Why Robots Should Learn to Build Crappy Ikea Furniture
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 28, 20195m 48s
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Show Notes
It’s become a veritable rite of passage for humans settling into their first apartments: Assemble a piece of Ikea furniture from a cryptic set of pictures without having either you, or the item in question, fall apart. What better way, thought researchers at the University of Southern California, to torture teach robots to manipulate the world around them.
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