On April 7, according to foreign media reports, researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan recently developed a dual-arm robot. The video shows that the robot can pick up a banana with both hands and complete the action of peeling a banana within 3 minutes.
According to reports, the robot has two arms and two hands, both of which are grippers that can grasp objects. To train the robot to peel bananas, the researchers decomposed the banana peeling process into 9 steps and entered instructions for the robot to learn step by step.
The researchers trained the robot using a "deep imitation learning" process, where they demonstrated the action of peeling a banana hundreds of times to generate enough data for the robot to learn and replicate the action. In this case, the robot reached its success rate after more than 13 hours of training.
According to foreign media, while the two-armed robot has only a 57% success rate, completing the banana peeling action means that the robot will perform more delicate operations than moving metal parts or delivering coffee in the future.
The researchers hope that the trained robots could alleviate Japan's labor shortages, especially in bento boxes or food-processing factories that rely heavily on humans.
