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TossingBot, A Robotic Arm That Can Teach Itself to Grasp, Toss and Catch Random Items

by Lori Dorn on April 4, 2019

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TossingBot

Andy Zheng and a team of Princeton University engineers, in partnership with Google Brain Robotics have created the TossingBot, a pair of robotic arms that sit facing each other. One arm grasps and tosses various object while the other makes sure that each object is caught. The accuracy of this interaction increases as the robot becomes more familiar with the objects through deep learning, as demonstrated with a banana.

We’ve developed TossingBot, a robotic arm that picks up items and tosses them to boxes outside its reach range. It is double the speed and dexterity of other state-of-the-art picking systems achieving 500+ mean picks per hour and is better at throwing than most of the engineers on the team. The key to TossingBot is a self-improving artificial intelligence algorithm that uses a combination of both physics and deep learning.

Can robots learn to pick up stuff and accurately toss them into bins outside its natural range? Check out our latest work, TossingBot! https://t.co/zJ4drySNFY w/ @SongShuran, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez, Thomas Funkhouser #robotics #AI #research pic.twitter.com/3aqhlQcZWj

— Andy Zeng (@andyzengtweets) March 26, 2019

via Spectrum IEEE


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