AI For Intel: Incremental Advances But No 'Big Brain'
In October, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency premiered its most ambitious humanoid robot contest ever: a competition to build robots that could replace humans in disaster areas like the 2011 multiple-reactor meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Entrants in the challenge must design robots to perform feats of strength and mobility, such as removing debris and climbing ladders, as well as chores normally thought of as involving intellect: autonomous decision-making tasks like choosing which leaking valve to close.
DARPA’s competition lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
“From a technology standpoint, I look at it as being unprecedented,” said Tony Stentz, director of the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
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