This was stated in the TRI press release, as reported by Ukrinform.

“Our research in robotics aims to improve people’s work, not replace them. “The new way of learning makes robots much more effective at improving human performance in many ways,” said Gill Pratt, CEO of TRI and Chief Scientist at Toyota Motor Corporation.

Previous state-of-the-art techniques for teaching robots new behaviors were slow, inconsistent, inefficient, and limited to narrowly defined tasks often performed in highly constrained environments.

Robotics engineers had to spend a lot of time writing complex codes and/or making multiple attempts to program robot behavior.

It was stated that TRI used the new approach to teach the robots more than 60 complex skills, including pouring liquids and using various tools.

These achievements were achieved without writing a single line of new code, the only change being the addition of new data to the robot.

Building on this success, TRI has set an ambitious goal of teaching hundreds of new skills to robots by the end of the year and 1,000 by the end of 2024.

As reported by Ukrinform, Canadian startup Acrylic Robotics has invented a robot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to reproduce artists’ works on a large scale.