Deep Learning Could Finally Make Robots Useful

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is introduced to Pepper the Robot by DigitalSTROM employee Martin Vesper in Berlin, Germany. Deep learning, a popular form of machine learning, is being applied across across a number of the latest tech products and services. But for the most part, all that computing is still taking place in the cloud. San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Skymind is hoping to embed deep learning directly into robots. The startup is releasing a new toolkit, SKIL Somatic, that will enable robots to recognize the visual world around it using a popular type of deep learning, called a convolutional neural networks.