Unifying Physics and Deep Learning with TossingBot

1 · Google AI Research · March 26, 2019, 6:25 p.m.
Posted by Andy Zeng, Student Researcher, Robotics at Google Though considerable progress has been made in enabling robots to grasp objects efficiently, visually self adapt or even learn from real-world experiences, robotic operations still require careful consideration in how they pick up, handle, and place various objects -- especially in unstructured settings. Consider for example, this picking robot which took 1st place in the stowing task of the Amazon Robotics Challenge:It's an impressive s...