Robots That Learn to Use Improvised Tools

The past year has had a ton of papers that center around unsupervised 'creativty'. I'd say this solidly falls into that category.

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Got any papers? I'm interested in unsupervised creativity.

Sounds a bit ambitious. Shouldn't we first build a robot that can learn to reliable pick up objects of arbitrary shape? E.g. pick up LEGO bricks from a pile and stack them according to a plan.

Reliably picking up object is a specific task that might be solved at the material/physic level, for example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7l-87r4oOY which doesn't use fingers at all.

Planning using previously unseen object to interact with other previously unseen objects in the environnement to perform a general task is not something we can solve with new types of hardware (at least for now)

I’d settle for a robot that could pick up LEGO bricks and just drop them in a box. It’d have a lifetime of employment in my living room.

What price would be ok for you for this product?

It’s all fun and games until the robots fashion a shiv.