Events

Is Data all you need? Large robot action models and good old fashioned engineering

Speaker: Ken Goldberg

Location: 60 Fifth Avenue, Room 150

Date: Friday, September 6, 2024

I'll share my concerns about current trends in robot task definition, data collection, and experimental evaluation. I propose that to reach expected performance levels, we'll need "good old fashioned engineering" -- modularity, algorithms, and metrics. Like biological brains, which evolved to be modular rather than monolithic, we need systematic approaches to combine GOFE and learning. I'll present MANIP, a new framework that integrates engineering / modularity with learning, that we've applied to robot tasks such as cable untangling, surgical suturing, and bagging.