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Robot Chef Learns to Make an Omelet
     

Sylvain Calinon writes, "I am a postdoctoral fellow working on
humanoid robot and imitation learning, at the Learning Algorithms and
Systems Laboratory (LASA), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland. We just posted some videos of our work on Youtube,
showing a humanoid robot learning to whip egss, cut ham and grate cheese
to do an omelet." There are two videos, a short version and
a long version.
You can read more about Sylvain's work
on his website. The work is designed to allow robot learning by
imitation using a three phase approach: demonstration, modeling, and
reproduction. A number of  research papers are
available if you want to learn more about their approach. This work
is being done at the EPFL Learning
Algorithms and Systems Lab.
   

http://robots.net/article/2531.html