Imitation learning is a powerful concept in AI. A type of learning where behaviors are acquired by mimicking a person’s actions, it enables a system to perform a task by creating a “mapping” between ...

Over the past two decades, humanoid robots have greatly improved their ability to perform functions like grasping objects and using computer vision to detect things since Honda’s release of the ASIMO ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. OpenAI, the San Francisco-based nonprofit research lab backed by Elon Musk, ...

What is the very best way to learn a complex task? Is it practice, practice, practice, or is watching and thinking enough to let you imitate a physical activity, such as skiing or ballet? A new study ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning to mimic expert scientists and thus improve the processing steps needed to produce cell therapies. Multiply Labs and Stanford University’s Laboratory for Cell ...

Researchers have created a surgical robot that learns by watching videos of surgeons. The robot uses a technique called imitation learning to master procedures like suturing and needle manipulation.

Aristotle wrote that imitation is natural to human beings from childhood, and he observed that this is one of our advantages over the so-called lower animals. A human being is "the most imitative ...