Japan robot peels bananas without squashing the fruit

STORY: This Japanese robot can peel bananas without squashing the fruit

(most of the time)

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Researchers at University of Tokyo trained the dual-armed robot

using ‘deep imitation learning’

They demonstrated the banana-peeling action hundreds of times

to produce sufficient data for the robot to learn and replicate the actions

The robot can pick and peel the banana in about three minutes

and has a 57% success rate of not destroying it