Google’s AI helps robots navigate around humans in offices

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In a study published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Google and University of California, Berkely researchers propose a framework that combines learning-based perception with model-based controls to enable wheeled robots to autonomously navigate around obstacles. They say it generalizes well to avoiding unseen buildings and humans in both simulation and real-world environments and that it leads to better and more data-efficient behaviors than a purely learning-based approach.  » ….