Furthering the idea of robots building Ikea furniture—a task that’s been shown to befuddle humans too—the team at MIT taught a pack of KUKA’s youBots to not only realize when they’ve failed at a task, but to also determine if they actually have any chance of succeeding. If the answer is no, they can ask a human for help, specifying what needs to get done, and what robot needs assistance.
via Gizmodo

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