May 7, 2008

The Chief Cook Robot

  Sylvain Calinon is a postdoctoral fellow who is working on humanoid robot and imitation learning at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory . There is also a long version of the video available. "A humanoid robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese.  Through the use of a probabilistic model, the robot progressively learns