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by christophclarke 2479 days ago
This seems to play very well with some of MIT CSAIL's research in training robots to be able to manipulate objects they haven't seen before.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9U8X6I1vow [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06684

TL;DR the objects are grouped into categories which determine the "Key points" on the objects (similar to this 'skeleton') which the robot knows how to interact with in order to bring about the intended manipulation.