Very good robot sidekick helped assemble a remote-controlled plane

Who says robots can’t have hobbies, too?
By Emmett Smith  on 
A finished model airplane built by a human and their robot assistant.
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At the University of Southern California, a robot helped a human build a remote-controlled airplane. The upcoming study seeks to determine whether human preferences can be effectively transferred to robots in order to complete an assembly task. Using a small touchscreen tablet, the researcher is shown a list of suggested parts or actions to choose from. After making a selection, the robot then heads over to pick up the required pieces and leaves them in a drop-off zone for a smaller robot hand to pass on to the researcher

Topics Robotics


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