{"id":23913,"date":"2017-10-12T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=23913"},"modified":"2024-09-11T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T20:18:07","slug":"teaching-robots-think-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/10\/teaching-robots-think-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Robots to Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a research building in the heart of UConn\u2019s Storrs campus, assistant professor Ashwin Dani is teaching a life-size industrial robot how to think.<\/p>\n<p>Here, on a recent day inside the University\u2019s Robotics and Controls Lab, Dani and a small team of graduate students are showing the humanoid bot how to assemble a simple desk drawer.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ceyes\u201d on the robot\u2019s face screen look on as two students build the wooden drawer, reaching for different tools on a tabletop as they work together to complete the task.<\/p>\n<p>The robot may not appear intently engaged. But it isn\u2019t missing a thing \u2013 or at least that\u2019s what the scientists hope. For inside the robot\u2019s circuitry, its processors are capturing and cataloging all of the humans\u2019 movements through an advanced camera lens and motion sensors embedded into his metallic frame.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the UConn scientists hope to develop software that will teach industrial robots how to use their sensory inputs to quickly \u201clearn\u201d the various steps for a manufacturing task \u2013 such as assembling a drawer or a circuit board \u2013 simply by watching their human counterparts do it first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/09\/teaching-robots-think\/\">Read more at UConn Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a research building in the heart of UConn\u2019s Storrs campus, assistant professor Ashwin Dani is teaching a life-size industrial robot how to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":218698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-23913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 23:13:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218705,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23913\/revisions\/218705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/218698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23913"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=23913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}