The Countless Variations of Pouring - How robots learn supposedly easy everyday tasks
This means that a request such as “pour cola into a glass” leaves a lot of room for interpretation and omits important information. What kind of glass should the robot choose, how viscous is cola, and how [...] actions based on this information. For example, when a robot observes a human pouring cola into a glass, it creates a virtual agent that resembles the person – a digital twin, so to speak. It reproduces [...] instructions from people into context – as with the initially mentioned request to pour cola into a glass. To make this possible, the researchers in Michael Beetz’s team are working on another major topic: