Nvidia's AI robot learns from observing humans

Nvidia has demonstrated a robot with a groundbreaking AI which learns to complete tasks by observing the actions of a human. The researchers, led by Stan Birchfield and Jonathan Tremblay, claim their development is a'first of its kind' deep learning-based system. "For robots to perform useful tasks in real-world settings, it must be easy to communicate the task to the robot; this includes both the desired result and any hints as to the best means to achieve that result. With demonstrations, a user can communicate a task to the robot and provide clues as to how to best perform the task." Nvidia's robot is powered by the firm's TITAN X graphics cards which features 3584 NVIDIA CUDA cores running at 1.5GHz for a total performance of around 11 TFLOPS.