Google DeepMind has announced that it has taught one of its robots how to tie a shoe.
Unfortunately, the robot isnt very good at it yet.
In fact, the bots shoe-tying abilities arguably rank quite low on the overall scale.
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Im pretty sure most American adults (and also children) can tie their shoes better than this robot.
The bots breakthrough was announced in a tweet posted on X on Thursday.
Enter ALOHA Unleashed, which builds upon our ALOHA 2 system.
With two arms, it can be teleoperated to collect high quality training data.
Just imagine trying to walk around in those things.
Youd be face-planting immediately.
Unusually, the bot uses two arms to complete the taskor what researchers dub bi-arm manipulation.
DeepMind also revealed two new AI systems, dubbed ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart.
Many companies are currently racing to build robots that can engage in human-like activities.
Minor tasks like shoe-tying or shirt-folding have long been considereda critical litmus test of a robots abilities.
Some companies are having more success than others.
Earlier this year, Elon Muskshared a video of his Tesla bot(dubbed Optimus) folding a shirt.
Its unclear why else you would build a machine whose purpose is to replicate labor already accomplished by humans.
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