[Tyler]

Artificial Pancake Flipping
     


Dr Sylvain Calinon of the Italian Institute of Technology writes,
"The blog is great, but it seriously lacks some pancake flipping
robot videos!!" Well, we aim to please, so here's some video of a
robot learning to flip artificial pancakes. By coincidence, this pancake
flipping robot is the work of Dr Petar
Kormushev and Dr
Sylvain Calinon
from the Italian Institute of Technology. It's an impressive feat of
engineering but it's also just crazy fun to watch a robot throwing
pancakes around. For more, see the paper Robot
Motor Skill Coordination with EM-based Reinforcement Learning
   

http://robots.net/article/3033.html