Scientists have taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated biology problem from scratch.

The first task of assembling a toy airplane wheel actually takes a painstaking 12 minutes for the robot to complete, definitely a tedious task. Eventually BRETT applies the same algorithm learned ...

In the experiments, the UC Berkeley researchers worked with a Willow Garage Personal Robot 2 (PR2), which they nicknamed BRETT, or Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks.

Despite the fact that it constantly seems like we’re in the midst of a robotics- and artificial intelligence-driven revolution, there are a number of tasks that continue to elude even the bes… ...

For there is one point that is undoubtedly true here, the rise of the sex robots, and the rest of it, worrying about 50% unemployment rates, the death of the job and the terrible problem of a rise ...

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This is a big a problem if we ever want robots to be helpful around the house, or if we want to improve their utility in warehouses, factories, and other industrial settings.

The robot, named BRETT (or Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks), taught itself to complete a series of motor tasks without pre-programmed details about its surroundings.

The ability to generate mathematical equations from scratch is what sets ABE apart from Adam, the robot scientist developed by Ross King and his colleagues at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.