Learning to Assemble and to Generalize from Self-Supervised Disassembly

1 · Google AI Research · Oct. 31, 2019, 8:30 p.m.
Summary
Posted by Kevin Zakka, Research Intern and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Our physical world is full of different shapes, and learning how they are all interconnected is a natural part of interacting with our surroundings — for example, we understand that coat hangers hook onto clothing racks, power plugs insert into wall outlets, and USB cables fit into USB sockets. This general concept of “how things fit together'' based on their shapes is something that people acquire over ...