Robot learns surgery through imitation learning Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Stanford Universities have made a significant breakthrough in surgical robotics. For the first time, a robot has ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

The cultural basis of cultural evolution: Longitudinal evidence that infant imitation develops by being imitated. Current Biology, 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.084 ...

The problem with imitation learning Machine learning experts consider pretraining to be a form of imitation learning because models are trained to imitate the behavior of human authors. Imitation ...

Human intelligence heavily depends on acquiring knowledge from other humans — accumulated through time as part of our cultural evolution. This type of social learning, known in literature as ...

Imitation and social learning are foundational processes through which young children acquire new skills, behaviours and cultural norms. By observing and replicating the actions of others ...

Imitation learning can be used to train AI to control robot arms, drive cars, or navigate web pages. There is a vast amount of video online showing people doing different tasks.

The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of ...