Google’s latest AI model teaches robots to throw away trash. It’s an essential step toward making robots more helpful and responsive to the needs of people in their environments. While robots can perform basic tasks that they’re programmed to do, they struggle to adapt to changes and deal with new situations that they haven’t been specifically trained for. Traditional robot control systems use complex stacks of high-level reasoning and low-level manipulation systems that play an imperfect game of telephone to translate human commands into the robots’ movements. Only now, teaching robots to perform general tasks has been a time-consuming and … Continue reading Google’s RT-2 AI Model Helps Robots Learn to Throw Away Trash