How Facebook researchers' realistic simulations help advance AI and AR

Replica can be loaded up in AI Habitat, a new open platform for embodied AI research. Facebook AI created AI Habitat to be the most powerful and flexible way for researchers to train and test AI bots in simulated living and working spaces. AI Habitat allows researchers to put a bot into a Replica environment, so it can learn to tackle different tasks, like "go check if my laptop is on my desk in the kitchen." These chores are simple for humans, but for machines to master them, they must recognize objects, understand language, and navigate effectively. Today's machines -- like robotic vacuums, for example -- can respond to commands, but they don't understand and adapt to the world around them as people do.