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