How to Train Your Robot: Now They Can Follow Human Demonstrations to Tie Knots
BRETT the robot is a knot-tying whiz; it can tie an overhand knot, square knot, figure 8, and hitch. Sure, there are robots out there that drive cars, detonate roadside bombs, and even collect rock samples from the surface of Mars, but what makes BRETT special is not what it can do, but how it came by its modest talents.
From the Winter 2014 Gender Assumptions issue of California.