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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Robots in Japan are found on factory floors carrying out simple tasks or delivering food to restaurant patrons but researchers have now unveiled a robot capable of executing the delicate task of peeling a banana without squashing the fruit inside.<\/p>\n

While the dual-armed machine is only successful 57% of the time, banana peeling points to a future where machines undertake more subtle operations than moving metal parts or delivering coffee.<\/p>\n

Video from researchers at the University of Tokyo showed the robot pick up and peel a banana with both hands in about three minutes.<\/p>\n

Researchers Heecheol Kim, Yoshiyuki Ohmura and Yasuo Kuniyoshi trained the robot using a “deep imitation learning” process where they demonstrated the banana-peeling action hundreds of times to produce sufficient data for the robot to learn the actions and replicate it.<\/p>\n

In this case, the banana robot reached its success rate after more than 13 hours of training.<\/p>\n

While still undergoing more testing, Kuniyoshi believes his robot training method can teach robots to do different simple “human” tasks.<\/p>\n

He hopes the better-trained robots can alleviate Japan’s labour shortage problems, for example at bento lunch box or food processing factories that are highly dependent on human labour.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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