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Tristan Greene

MIT's new AI can teach itself to control robots by watching the world through their eyes — it only needs a single camera

A soft robotic hand curls its fingers to grasp a wooden pencil.

Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining.

The system gathers data about a given robot’s architecture using cameras, in much the same way that humans use their eyes to learn about themselves as they move.

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