New Apple study teaches robots how to act by watching humans

In a new paper called “Humanoid Policy ∼ Human Policy,” Apple researchers propose an interesting way to train humanoid robots. And it involves wearing an Apple Vision Pro.

Robot see, robot do

The project is a collaboration between Apple, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Washington, and UC San Diego. It explores how first-person footage of people manipulating objects can be used to train general-purpose robot models.

In total, the researchers gathered over…