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tly posted a new video showing how much it has sped up the robot. "Our end goal right now is to do an entire laundry cycle," said Pieter Abbeel, a Berkeley computer scientist who leads the group, "from dirty laundry in a basket to everything stacked away after it's been washed and dried." EFTA_R1_0203

limits of today's most sophisticated robots can be seen in a towel- folding demonstration that a group of students at the University of California, Berkeley, posted on the Internet last year: In spooky, anthropomorphic fashion, a robot deftly folds a series of towels, eyeing the corners, smoothing out w

hardly any thought. But as Dr. Brooks points out, training a robot to do it is a vastly harder problem for artificial intelligence researchers than I.B.M.'s celebrated victory on "Jeopardy!" this year with a robot named Watson. Although robots have made great strides in manufacturing, where tasks are

tly posted a new video showing how much it has sped up the robot. "Our end goal right now is to do an entire laundry cycle," said Pieter Abbeel, a Berkeley computer scientist who leads the group, "from dirty laundry in a basket to everything stacked away after it's been washed and dried." EFTA_R1_0203

limits of today's most sophisticated robots can be seen in a towel- folding demonstration that a group of students at the University of California, Berkeley, posted on the Internet last year: In spooky, anthropomorphic fashion, a robot deftly folds a series of towels, eyeing the corners, smoothing out w

hardly any thought. But as Dr. Brooks points out, training a robot to do it is a vastly harder problem for artificial intelligence researchers than I.B.M.'s celebrated victory on "Jeopardy!" this year with a robot named Watson. Although robots have made great strides in manufacturing, where tasks are

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