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Startup to pay prosthetic users to train robots
Original: Exclusive / Solving for the hand: Startup wants to pay prosthetic users to teach robots
A startup is launching a program that pays people who use prosthetic hands to help train robots, an approach aimed at solving one of robotics' hardest problems: replicating the dexterity of the human hand. The company argues that prosthetic users have unique expertise in how hands grip and manipulate objects, data that could accelerate robot development. It is a novel twist on data collection in the booming robotics field.
Why now: Robotics companies are racing to source human demonstration data, and paying prosthetic users is an unusual, newsworthy approach.
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- Exclusive / Solving for the hand: Startup wants to pay prosthetic users to teach robots · semafor.com
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