How robots will teach each other with data

Stefanie Tellex, assistant professor of computer science at Brown University, is solving a thorny robotics problem: robotic grasp. She has built a machine learning model so that robots can automatically learn to manipulate objects and can produce much-needed sample data with which other researchers can use to train robots to pick up objects, she explained at the MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference. If you go to a robotics lab and put an object in front of a robot that it has not seen before, that robot will almost always not be able to pick up that object." It's a problem because a robot has to understand the task and the object from sensor information. The robot arm's controls need answers to important questions: what is the object shape, where is it, how should the robotic arm and gripper move into position and where is the right place to grip the object to pick it up?