Fei-Fei Li's Stanford Team Is Crowdsourcing Robot Training

Sorting a bunch of differently coloured toy trucks and action figures seems like child's play, right? Unfortunately this remains a challenging task in the world of machine learning. So why not have humans simply show the machines how to do it? This is the inspiration behind a new research project led by Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Director Fei-Fei Li and her husband, Stanford Associate Professor Silvio Savarese. The project introduces two new global platforms -- RoboTurk and Surreal -- designed to provide high-quality task demonstration data to help researchers working in robotic manipulation.