Robots that put the clothes in the machine or wash the dishes? In the future, anything will be possible. But first, we need to train them… through the habits of any of us.
If Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows for increasingly notable advances in society, the area of robotics is one of those with the greatest potential. In this sense, there are several startups that want to develop humanoid robots to perform domestic tasks… but the training is very different from that intended for large language models, as is the case with GPT Chat.
Os chatbots They can be trained using information available on the Internet on a wide range of topics. The robotics industry, in turn, is faced with a challenge, which is the lack of information to train robots.
The solution? Use videos in which you see a person carrying out precisely the task you want to teach the robot, from washing the dishes, putting the clothes in the wash or folding them on a table. That’s what they do startups such as Encord and Micro1, according to statements by those responsible for the “Business Insider” platform.
It is necessary to “generate training information from scratch, in the real world, which is much more difficult [do que treinar chatbots]”, points out Ulrik Hansen, co-founder of Encord.
The need is so great that there are startups paying for videos
The desire of companies to develop their technologies before the competition already leads Micro1 to pay “incredibly well”, according to Ali Ansari, who made statements to the same platform. He himself speaks of values between 25 and 50 dollars per hour.
Furthermore, there seems to be a consensus among businesspeople that the difficulty in finding videos that allow quality training is a significant barrier for the sector.