AI Robot Learns How to Help People Get Dressed - NVIDIA Developer News Center

Every day, more than 1 million people in the United States require physical assistance to get dressed, whether because of injury, permanent disability, age, or other debilitating factors. To alleviate the problem, researchers from Georgia Tech built a deep learning-equipped robot that can help people get dressed. "What the robot is trying to do is to take the person's perspective of what a person is feeling during assistance," said Zachary Erickson, a robotics Ph.D. Student at Georgia Tech. "When the robot is doing this, it's using what it feels on its fingertips or its gripper and saying, what do I think a person is feeling while being dressed?" The robot, named PR2, was trained using NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs on the Amazon Web Services cloud with the cuDNN-accelerated Keras and TensorFlow deep learning frameworks.