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dchftcs ◴[] No.44419191[source]
Pure vision will never be enough because it does not contain information about the physical feedback like pressure and touch, or the strength required to perform a task.

For example, so that you don't crush a human when doing massage (but still need to press hard), or apply the right amount of force (and finesse?) to skin a fish fillet without cutting the skin itself.

Practically in the near term, it's hard to sample from failure examples with videos on Youtube, such as when food spills out of the pot accidentally. Studying simple tasks through the happy path makes it hard to get the robot to figure out how to do something until it succeeds, which can appear even in relatively simple jobs like shuffling garbage.

With that said, I suppose a robot can be made to practice in real life after learning something from vision.

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1. rocqua ◴[] No.44419692[source]
On humans, you can generally see the force they apply by looking at strain.
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2. dchftcs ◴[] No.44419916[source]
The error margins will be huge, and for small enough force (like the skinning part or handling fine mechanical stuff) there's basically almost zero signal.