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Freddo the robot walks across the office and takes a plastic bottled offered by a staff member
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Given that a robot recently beat Usain Bolt's 100m sprint record, it's not the most startling achievement.
Key facts
- Given that a robot recently beat Usain Bolt's 100m sprint record, it's not the most startling achievement
- Rika Antonova has been working in the field of robotics since 2015 and is currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge
- In 2022 they decided to set up Vsim, to build the their own training system environment and other tools
- It can look about a second, or so, ahead into the future for 20,000 different kind of combinations of things that might happen," Storey explains
Summary
Freddo the robot walks across the office and takes a plastic bottled offered by a staff member. But the speed by which Freddo has been trained to walk, recognise the bottle and grasp it is impressive. The reporter is at Vsim, a British start-up based in Cambridge. "It's a weird situation with robotics because the stuff that they find as humans to be incredibly difficult, like gymnastics, you can get robots to do reasonably well.