Robots created in order to support and help people. And while the dog SpotMini company Boston Dynamics learning how to open doors and to imitate the movements of real dogs, a group of engineers from the German University of Koblenz-Landau has taught a robot to TIAGo to find the apartment refrigerator, open it and bring the host a bottle of beer, his favorite brand. What’s a robot then it seems more helpful for mankind?
TIAGo robot developed by PAL Robotics, but much modified by German engineers in the competition Jetson Developer Challenge, launched last fall with the filing of NVIDIA Corporation. Hundreds of enthusiasts from around the world were given the opportunity to use a modular supercomputer NVIDIA Jetson TX2 in their projects, thus improving them. Jetson TX2 enabled German robot quickly calculate the trajectory of movement in tight spaces to explore and examine their environment and even choose from several Beers provided in the fridge, the one that is most like the master.
For orientation of the robot in space experts have resorted to using the algorithm for semantic segmentation. So TIAGo has learned to recognize certain objects (the same bottle of beer). At the same time for training its neural network only took 60 images of beer, after which the robot is unmistakably began to find beer on the shelves of the refrigerator and even to distinguish its different varieties. The winners Jetson Developer Challenge in addition to monetary prizes will get also the NVIDIA Titan Xp, the right to attend relevant training courses, invitation to computer conference GTC in 2018, which will be held in Silicon valley this spring.
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Sergey Grey