If robots could learn from watching demonstrations, your self-driving car could learn how to drive safely by watching you drive around your neighborhood. (Photo/IStock)

USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn complicated new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.

While current state-of-art methods need at least 100 demonstrations to nail a specific task, this new method allows robots to learn from only a handful of demonstrations. It also allows robots to learn more intuitively the way humans learn from each other — you watch someone execute a task, even imperfectly, then try yourself.

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Automation Robotics

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