Knife-wielding robot trains for grocery checkout job using new coactive learning technique (w/ Video)
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 03:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Cornell University engineers have taught a robot to work in a mock-supermarket checkout line, modifying a Baxter robot from Rethink Robotics in Boston to "coactively learn" from humans and make adjustments while an action is in progress.