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DARPA-Funded Robots Learning To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 1, 2015 @10:00AM from the perfect-meal dept.

jfruh writes Once you've built humanoid-shaped robots, how do you get them to move and act like humans? Well, one way to teach them how to do it is to have them watch one of the greatest repository of recorded human experience ever: YouTube. Robots in a Maryland lab have learned how to prepare meals by watching and processing a slew of cooking videos, one of YouTube's most popular genres.

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really? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-01 10:22 · Score: 0, Interesting

This seems like way too big of a leap. They can process videos to understand what ingredients are being used, how they're prepared and how they're cooked? I don't think so. If they could do that they could learn all sort of things besides cooking. There must be some small accomplishment that's being blown way out of proportion to "learn to cook by watching videos"