"DeepMind's RoboCat: The Self-Training AI for General Purpose Robots"
DeepMind has developed a self-training robot named RoboCat that can learn new tasks quickly and improve its performance by constructing its own performance data. The robot fine-tunes its performance on between 100 and 1,000 demonstrations from a human-controlled robotic arm. Through self-training, its success rate doubled. The development is seen as a major step towards accelerating robotics research, "as it reduces the need for human-supervised training, and is an important step towards creating a general-purpose robot."