COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Hold on to your hats, cooks.
Researchers at the University of Maryland and a group of Austrian researchers teamed up to teach robots how to cook with YouTube cooking videos.
The Robots learned how to cook through the deep learning method, which is basically just gathering data and turning it into commands.
"The ability to learn actions from human demonstrations is one of the major challenges for the development of intelligent systems," researchers wrote in their findings. "Cooking is an activity, requiring a variety of manipulation actions, that future service robots most likely need to learn."
The group of researchers gathered data from 88 YouTube cooking videos in order to train their robot model. Once they gathered specific data from the videos they turned it into commands the robot could execute.
"We believe this preliminary integrated system raises hopes towards a fully intelligent robot for manipulation tasks that can automatically enrich its own knowledge resource by 'watching' recordings from the World Wide Web," the researchers wrote.
Although humanoid cooks are not new, deep learning can increase their use and prominence.