13. Toward Interactive Learning of Container and Non-Container Objects
Jun 20, 2009 3514 views 
This video highlights our work toward creating robots that interactively learn about container and non-container objects. It demonstrates that a robot can distinguish between them by dropping a block in the area above the object and observing the co-movement patterns while pushing the object. Also, the video illustrates that the robot can learn a perceptual model of containers to identify novel containers in the environment. Check out the lab's webpage at [[http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~alexs/lab/]] or the first author's webpage at [[http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~shaneg/research.html]] for more information.