Watch a Robot Peel a Banana Without Crushing It

In tests, the robot was able to successfully peel a banana 57% of the time. The whole process takes less than 3 minutes. A machine learning system developed by researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo can train a robot to peel a banana without crushing it. The robot was trained on about 13 hours of data in which a human demonstrator peeled hundreds of bananas. The machine learning model maps out a trajectory that involves copying the human when it comes to broad movements not likely to damage the fruit.