• Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a system so robots learn to cook by watching YouTube!
• The project was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is the Pentagon’s most advanced tech-development wing.
• Reza Ghanadan, from DARPA, says that the program focused on processing visual data and ‘understanding’ what’s happening in the visual scene, not just recognising and identifying objects.
• Impressively, researchers say the system allows robots to continuously build on previous learning and that they are working on a way for the robots to ‘teach’ other robots what they know!
• Research team-member Corneila Fermüller says that they are “trying to create a technology so that robots eventually can interact with humans”.

Read more:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476113,00.asp

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2878354/darpa-teaches-robots-to-cook-by-watching-youtube.html

http://www.inquisitr.com/1802585/darpa-robot-ai-learns-to-cook-by-watching-youtube-videos/

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