Robots can learn tasks by watching and mimicking humans

This week, NVIDIA revealed that its researchers have developed a unique deep learning system that allows a robot to learn a task based on the actions of a human. The focus here is on the communication between the robot and human, to the point where the robot can observe and mimic the human. After a robot witnesses a task being performed, it comes up with a list of steps necessary to duplicate performance of that task. The list can then be reviewed by a human to confirm it's correct before robot then carries out the steps. The researchers carried out a demonstration with a pair of stacked cubes, which the robot needs to place in the correct order, in the video below.