(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels

Project was led by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard working with Professor Pieter Abbeel. The video is shown at 50X speed. More details can be found in the paper at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Epabbeel/papers/Maitin-ShepardCusumano-TownerLei...

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Science & Technology

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• robot
• autonomous
• deformable
• object
• manipulation
• towel
• folding
• laundry
• university
• california
• berkeley
• aritifical
• intelligence
• AI
• machine
• learning
• uc
• pr2
• willow garage
• maitin-shepard
• abbeel

[nyavramov]

Progression of people's mentality on robotics:

1. Okay, it can fold a towel but it's slow.

2. Okay, it can fold a towel fast, but it can't fold other cloths.

3. Okay, it can fold clothes, but it can't do dishes or and drive to the grocery store.

4. Okay, it can get groceries and dishes, but it can't think creatively.

6. Okay, it can think creatively, but it isn't conscious.

7. Okay, it's conscious....

...Well, fuck.

[nafneeuq7]

As long as the robots never realize that they can get the job done a whole lot faster if they just enslave us and make us do it, we'll be fine.

[orbenn]

@nyavramov I'll buy one as soon as it completes step 3.

[userwords]

leopard towel is very disgusting. of a very bad taste dudes.

[godthisisannoying]

This is very nice. It's interesting to see the solutions developed by the team, such as twisting the cloth with each pincer in order to identify the cloth configuration and material properties. Very nice job, can't wait for fully automated laundry/dry cleaning businesses to start springing up, which will then inevitably lead to home appliances which will do all of it, including putting the clothes on their respective drawers. And prevent a lot of back injuries for people working those businesses

[golema4]

@DoomfuzzFTW Can he build it out of scraps - in a cave?

[anne9660]

I, for one, welcome our new robotic towel folding overlords.

[Josephjoel3]

@ChibiGeeBee Consciousness is just another word for thought. The answer to your question is yes as consciousnesses is limited to a field. We have a division of consciousness known as self-consciousnesses which is the physical ability of knowing that we know. Our very species name Homo Sapiens reflects this. Therefore we are all conscious of what we know and we are also conscious that our consciousnesses is limited in it's ability to know. "I know one thing, that I know nothing"-Socrates.

[ChibiGeeBee]

@Josephjoel3 Wouldn't that mean you are conscious of the fact that you aren't conscious?

[Josephjoel3]

@SFNightTripper Ahh, and you're the intellectual I see, resorting to petty insults and self stroking superiority, while not saying anything of relevance or significance. There is nothing "pseudo" about anything. Only a willingness to take in certain forms of information over another and then calling all that is excluded pseudo-whatever.

[SFNightTripper]

@Josephjoel3 "thats all" bwahahaha get your pseudo-intellectual crap out of here nerd

[glund01]

THE FUTURE IS NOW