Dissimilar robots can 'learn' to perform tasks without needing new code

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Thanks to the new learning-from-demonstration (LfD) system, a robotic arm such as this one could learn a new skill using the same code as a full-body humanoid robot

It’s fairly easy for people to learn from other people – we’ve been doing it for around 300,000 years – because we can observe, copy, and modify what they’re doing. It’s less easy for us to learn from other animals that way, because the less our cognition and bodies are alike, the harder it is to copy and modify what they do. Learning about plants, fungi, protozoa, and bacteria is easy enough, but learning from them? Forget it.

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