Pancake-flipping robot [video]

Posted Jul 23rd, 2010 at 7:29 AM and seen

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When robots take over the universe and turn humans into drooling minions, they will smell like pancakes. Yes, pancakes…and maybe maple syrup. Why, you ask? Researchers (read: friends of evil robots) at the Italian Institute of Technology taught a giant robot arm to flip pancakes through reinforcement learning. Sure, it took the robot 50 tries just to get the first part down, but he’s probably just playing dumb.