DeepMind’s ‘remarkable’ new AI controls robots of all kinds

VentureBeat October 6, 2023
Ben Dickson

One of the big challenges of robotics is the amount of effort that has to be put into training machine learning models for each robot, task, and environment. Now, a new project by Google DeepMind and 33 other research institutions aims to address this challenge by creating a general-purpose AI system that can work with different types of physical robots and perform many tasks.

“What we have observed is that robots are great specialists, but poor generalists,” Pannag Sanketi, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Robotics, told VentureBeat. “Typically, you have to train a model for each task, robot, and environment. Changing a single variable often requires starting from scratch.”

To overcome this and make it far easier...

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