>> What's wrong with only being trained to use a specific tool? The robot is designed to be easy to train via teleoperation. What's wrong is the fact that it's

>> What's wrong with only being trained to use a specific tool? The robot is designed to be easy to train via teleoperation. What's wrong is the fact that it's not just one tool, but one particular tool (specific size, shape, colour etc), placed in one specific way on one specific countertop, in one specific kitchen etc etc. Try to calculate how many different configurations there can be of this combination and you'll convince yourself that there is no way to make any real progress with methods that rely on such specific conditions and have to be re-trained everytime any detail changes. As a for instance, the robot trained to fry one measly little prawn would have to be trained again to fry two, or to fry them in a bigger or smaller pan, etc. Btw, the robot didn't fry the prawn. It pretended to. Because it has no way to tell when the prawn is fried. Good luck training it to do that. >> Edit: I just realized that it is only the first video was sped up by 6x. So basically, the robot is already fast enough and can only get faster. I was talking about the initial video, not the others. And you're wrong- that's the limit of the hardware. To make it faster the researchers will have to build a faster robot and that still doesn't change what it can and cannot do, at any speed, fast or slow. The speed doesn't have anything to do with generality. >> One day it will be 3x slower, then 2x, then 1x, then, oops. One day we will all live on Mars and consort with aliens. I like science fiction too, but this is proposed as real-world progress, right now. Well, it ain't.