Scientists at the University of Maryland and NICTA, Australia are working on ways for robots to learn how to cook by watching YouTube videos.

In the project, researchers "trained" the robots to react to objects in their environment by giving them YouTube cooking videos to watch.

By watching these videos, robots are able to learn the complicated series of grasping and manipulation motions required for cooking by observing what humans do on the Internet.

Called PR2, the robot, developed by the team of robotics experts that comprise the group RoboHow, can learn how to cook watching humans while combining that information with how-to guides and ...

“When a robot is learning how to cook, like any other cook, it needs indications of how well it did,” Abdulali said.

Back in 2012, Google created a simulation of the human brain, able to learn to recognize particular concepts, such as cats, by simply watching YouTube videos—and without ever having been told ...

Researchers have developed a way for robots to learn how to use tools by watching videos. The method is used to train a robot how to cook.

Here's your latest bit of news about robots slowly taking over our world. Soon, they will be able to make lasagna better than you can.

Robots are learning to pour and mix ingredients and flip burgers by watching cooking videos on YouTube. A research team from National ICT Australia and the University of Maryland in the US is giving ...