Robots Learn by Watching How-to Videos
January 4, 2016 | Cornell UniversityEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
The computer scans the videos frame by frame, looking for objects that appear often, and reads the accompanying narration - using subtitles – looking for frequently repeated words. Using these markers it matches similar segments in the various videos and orders them into a single sequence. From the subtitles of that sequence it can produce written instructions. In other research, robots have learned to perform tasks by listening to verbal instructions from a human. In the future, information from other sources such as Wikipedia might be added.
The learned knowledge from the YouTube videos is made available via RoboBrain, an online knowledge base robots anywhere can consult to help them do their jobs.
The research is supported in part by the Office of Naval Research and a Google Research Award.
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