Robotic Helper Making Mistakes? Just Nudge It
Graduate student Felix Yanwei Wang nudges a robotic arm that’s manipulating a bowl in a toy kitchen set up in the group’s lab. Using the framework Wang and his collaborators developed, slightly nudging a robot is one way to correct its behavior.
Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of the sink, but its gripper slightly misses the mark.