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How do you make a robot smarter? Program it to know what it doesn’t know

Modern robots know how to sense their environment and respond to language, but what they don’t know is often more important than what they do know. Teaching robots to ask for help is key to making them safer and more efficient.

How do you make a robot smarter? Program it to know what it doesn’t know

Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ask for further directions. Telling a robot to pick up a bowl from a table…

November 30, 2023

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Q&A: Researcher discusses how newly developed method can help robots identify objects in cluttered spaces

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be confused.

February 8, 2024

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A system that allows home robots to cook in collaboration with humans

Home robots could assist humans with the completion of various chores and manual tasks, ranging from washing dishes or doing the laundry to cooking, cleaning and tidying up. While many roboticists and computer scientists have tried to improve the skills of home robots in recent years, many of the robots…

March 16, 2024

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