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How Lantao Liu and his team are helping robots adapt to challenges

AWS just backed breakthrough robotics research that could reshape how machines adapt to real-world challenges.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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Open-source robotics adaptation methods could accelerate enterprise AI deployment by solving the flexibility problem that keeps robots confined to controlled environments.

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  1. AWS Machine Learning Research Award recipient

  2. Focus on open-source libraries for AI and robotics communities

  3. Research on robot adaptation methods

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Publisher excerpt: The AWS Machine Learning Research Award winner is working to develop methods and open-source libraries that can potentially benefit the artificial intelligence and robotics communities.
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