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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. It turns out that the things human babies can

master like picking up tiny blocks are giant challenges for robots. In his

2023 talk from TEDx Marin, the roboticist Ken Goldberg takes us through how advances

in AI and deep learning have led to big strides in training robots to do even the most precise tasks,

like untying tangled cables.

I don't know about you, but if robots could untangle my necklaces,

I'd line up for that, for sure. Here is talk after the break.

I have a feeling most people in this room would like to have a robot at home.

Be nice to be able to do the chores and take care of things.

Where are these robots?

What's taking so long?

I mean, we have our tricorder's and we have satellites we have

laser beams but where are the robots? I mean okay wait we do have some robots in our home but not really doing anything

that exciting okay now I've been doing research at UC Berkeley for 30 years with my students on robots and in the next 10 minutes I'm going to try to explain the gap between fiction and reality.

In the field, there's something that explains this that we call

more of X paradox.

And that is what's easy for robots, like being able to pick up a large object, large heavy object, is hard for humans.

But what's easy for humans, like being able to pick up some blocks and stack them,

well it turns out that is very hard for robots.

And this is a persistent problem.

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