AI Powered Robot Completes Marble Labyrinth In Near Record Time
CyberRunner is a Labyrinth marble game modified to be played by autonomous AI, using two motors as hands, a camera for eyes, and a computer for its brain. It does not have a sense of humor though, and clearly became frustrated when I kept replacing its marble with a piece of chewed gum.
After six hours of model-based reinforcement learning, the robot was able to complete the full maze in just 14.69 seconds — within a second of the human world record. That’s impressive… and with only 6 hours of practice! Imagine what it could do with a full week.
During the robot’s learning, it found several shortcuts it could take to bypass part of the maze, but the humans behind the project stepped in to force the robot to follow the whole path. Me? I always try to jump the ball straight from start to finish in one violent leap.
[via TechEBlog]