Google taps computer vision to improve robot manipulation performance

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In a preprint paper, a Google and MIT team investigate whether pre-trained visual representations can be used to improve a robot’s object manipulation performance. They say that their proposed technique — affordance-based manipulation — can enable robots to learn to pick and grasp objects in less than 10 minutes of trial and error,  » ….