teaching robots skills

MIT researchers have developed a system that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task based on only a handful of human examples. This could allow a human to reprogram a robot to grasp never-before-seen objects, presented in random poses, in about 15 minutes. Courtesy of the researchers
An easier way to teach robots new skills in only 10 to 15 minutes
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