VirtualHome Trains Robots to Do Chores

Jun-22-18 The VirtualHome system trains robots to do housework by teaching them in a virtual world.

Developed by a team at MIT, the VirtualHome system helps AI devices learn to perform household tasks by allowing them to train in a virtual setting. The avatars used in the system can perform up to 1000 different jobs in eight different settings, breaking the complex tasks into ‘skeletal detail’ that the AI can learn and follow.

According to CSAIL doctoral student Xavier Puig, “We were trying to find a way to model complex activities to better understand the steps needed to do them, so that we could better identify them in video and potentially teach robots to perform them.”

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