ERC Proof of Concept: Artificial intelligence for flexible robots

Present-day robots are made for the purpose of repeating several tasks thousands of times. To make robots more widely applicable, future robots need to be able to do thousands of tasks just a few times. Programming a robot to solve just one complex motor task has remained a challenging, costly and time-consuming task - artificial intelligence is rarely employed. In fact, manual programming has become the key bottleneck in robot use. Empowering robots with an artificially intelligence approach to autonomously learn such tasks is at the center of the new ERC Proof of Concept project "AssemblySkills", which aims to validate that an autonomous, intelligent skill learning system can enable robots to acquire and improve a rich set of motor skills for specific applications.