Google Wants Robots to Acquire New Skills by Learning From Each Other

Google has a plan to speed up robotic learning, and it involves getting robots to share their experiences and collectively improve their capabilities. Sergey Levine from the Google Brain team, along with collaborators from Alphabet subsidiaries DeepMind and X, published a blog post on Monday describing an approach for "general-purpose skill learning across multiple robots." Teaching robots how to do even the most basic tasks in real-world settings like homes and offices has vexed roboticists for decades. To tackle this challenge, the Google researchers decided to combine two recent technology advances. The first is cloud robotics, a concept that envisions robots sharing data and skills with each other through an online repository.