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Notes on robots and the trades
What we learn recording real electrical work for robot training data.
·6 min read
Head camera or handheld gripper: what data actually teaches a robot
Robot training data comes in very different forms, and the main difference is how directly each one tells a robot what to do with its hands. A video of someone wiring a socket shows what happened. It does not say exactly where the fingers were, how hard they pressed or how the tool moved in three dimensions.
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·4 min read
Why robots need to learn from electricians
Robots can now fold laundry, sort parcels and tidy a kitchen in videos that collect millions of views. Put the same robot in a half finished apartment and ask it to pull a cable through conduit, strip it and land it in a junction box, and it has almost nothing to go on.
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