Robots with Foresight

A human child learns from experience. Every action the baby takes produces a reaction from the environment that gets filed away in the mind. This may be brought out at a later date when faced with a similar situation. This sort of learning develops foresight and is what helps keep the baby safe.

A robot has a basic set of instructions about how to do a job. However with the great strides being made in Artificial Intelligence, there is no surprise when you discover that researchers at the University of California – Berkeley, have come up with a design that allows a robot to develop a bit of foresight of it’s own.

The robotic learning technology developed by the researchers allows robots to predict the future of their actions so that they can manipulate objects which they may not have seen beforehand. This is a technology which will help self driven robotic cars to drive safely when encountering out of the ordinary objects.

The technology developed in this science project will be able to produce even better robotic assistants in the home in the future. The robotic prototypes are currently teaching themselves simple manual moves based on autonomous play.  This visual foresight will help them perform these manual tasks with less margin for error.