Tweakers Cooking class, lesson 43: let the robot do the work

Not every tweaker will love cooking, but fortunately there is help coming. Scientists have developed a robot is developed that is autonomous can learn how he kitchenware is required to use YouTube videos to watch.

Began In 2002 Led a series of cooking classes to the users with kookaspiraties on the way to help, but further than lesson 42 (!) was the series not. The year 2015 seems such a course would be because the road is paved to the robots behind the counter to get.

Scientists of Umiacs and Nicta have a system developed that can self-learn the movements it has to make with what tools, by kookvideo’s on the internet.

For the development of the koksrobots combined the researchers of artificial intelligence, computer vision to shapes and movements accurately to identify and voice recognition. The team has for cooking as well as application chosen because this is a complex matter. “If you have a cucumber to cut, you need the knife to address this to the correct position, cut and inspect the result to make sure that you’ve done,” says Yiannis Aloimonos of the research team.

The special feature of the project is that the robot itself will analyze which of the examined acts he must commit to achieve his goal. “Others have tried to movements to copy; we try, the goal is to copy,” said Aloimonos. For the learning ability is made use of deeplearning on the basis of artificial neural networks. According to scientists, helps their work in developing autonomous robots that, for example, can help in the dismantling of bombs and rampenbestrijdingen such as that of the Japanese Fukushima disaster. The robot will therefore probably not in the short term in kitchens to cucumbers cutting, and eggs to bake.

The research is published this week under the heading of Robot Learning Manipulation Action Plans by ‘Watching’ Unconstrained Videos from the World Wide Web.