Facebook isn't often thought of as a robotics company, but new work being done in the social media giant's skunkworks AI lab is trying to prove otherwise. The company on Monday gave a detailed look into some of the projects being undertaken by its AI researchers at its Menlo Park, California-based headquarters, many of which are aimed at making robots smarter. Facebook has a dedicated team of AI researchers at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California that are tasked with testing out robots. Many of the robots being tested use 'self-supervised learning approaches' to become smarter, based on what Facebook calls a reinforcement learning algorithm. Another project overseen by the AI research team involves training robots to use tactile sensing in order to recognize objects.

Source: Daily Mail May 20, 2019 20:37 UTC