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A Peek Inside Google’s Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
- dcre 11y agoThis article is virtually content-free. "Google are building robots. They've hired some people. Those robots may or may not be grabbing objects."
- mappingbabeljc 11y agoIt's handy knowing they're fiddling with ROS, and the research papers show use of DNN&RL for robotics via simulated tasks with actions keying off of raw pixel inputs (paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971v1.pdf), and grasp paper shows ambitions on dexterous manipulation. I think valuable to have some idea of the research areas. I'm biased because I wrote the article, though! Aiming to produce a more granular article as soon as I can report it out.
- dcre 11y agoSorry to be a hater. I think the average HN reader knows a lot more about this than the average Bloomberg reader.
- sinatra 11y agoAfter 10-15 years of incremental improvements in web & mobile apps, I have started feeling that technology has finally started to try to solve real problems. General purpose robots, self driving cars, internet of things, virtual / augmented reality, etc are all very interesting! The kinds of things that people in 70s & 80s would think we'd have in 2010s. I'm getting excited about future again!
- drcode 11y agoI'm always happy to hear of any scraps that leak out of Google's robotics/AI divisions. There is no certainty that we'll see human level AI in our lifetime, but I am pretty confident we'll see machines master the basic physical world- Anything from cleaning to building houses to driving etc etc will be possible with only limited human intervention.