This is the real ticket. Basically motion capture to speed up training. But when a robot can do this, we don’t need human workers anymore. (Except to provide examples of the actions to perform, and to build the first robot-building machine, or robot-building-building machines, etc.
videos: https://sites.google.com/view/nips2017-one-shot-imitation/home
arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.07326.pdf
abstract: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07326
Learning Agile Robotic Locomotion Skills by
Imitating Animals: https://xbpeng.github.io/projects/Robotic_Imitation/2020_Robotic_Imitation.pdf
Imitation is the ability to recognize and reproduce others’ actions – By extension, imitation learning is a means of learning and developing new skills from observing these skills performed by another agent. Imitation learning (IL) as applied to robots is a technique to reduce the complexity of search spaces for learning. When observing either good or bad examples, one can reduce the search for a possible solution, by either starting the search from the observed good solution (local optima), or conversely, by eliminating from the search space what is known as a bad solution. Imitation learning offers an implicit means of training a machine, such that explicit and tedious programming of a task by a human user can be minimized or eliminated. Imitation learning is thus a “natural” means of training a machine, meant to be accessible to lay people. – (https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1428-6_758)
OpenAI’s https://openai.com/blog/robots-that-learn/