PIGINet: MIT's New AI to Enhance Robots' Planning, Problem Solving, and MORE by as much as 80 Percent

Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 16 July 2023, 11:07 pm

A new artificial intelligence (AI) was developed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to bring an enhancement to robots' capabilities in households, calling this system, the PIGINet. This new AI will help in enhancing the capabilities of household robots with a significant boost of as much as 50 to 80 percent.

Robots are known for following programs and codes, but this does not apply to all environments that are diversely changing and developing in the present.

PIGINet is MIT's New AI to Enhance Robots' Processes and Planning

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Researchers from MIT have announced the latest developments in incorporating machine learning into robots, and this is the PIGINet, a new AI system for machines. According to MIT News, robots that are meant for household chores or activities have a pre-determined set of actions in performing a certain task, and it is seldom quick in determining what to do for one's specific home. This is where PIGINet comes in.

PIGINet stands for "Plans, Images, Goals, and Initial Facts," with the neural network taking in these data to help assess and enhance what a robot will do to adhere to the commands made by the user.

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) developed PIGINet to help enhance the process, planning, and problem-solving, necessary to boost its performance by as much as 50 to 80 percent.

Boosting the Robot's Technology with AI

According to Interesting Engineering, the researchers first tested the robot in a kitchen and first used its preloaded processes to compare. It then deployed PIGINet to look into the effects it will bring for robots, measuring the time from the original codes, down to the one enhanced by PIGINet.

MIT offers a boost for modern-day household robots that will adapt and adhere to commands suited for one's home, leveraging AI to help in the day-to-day processes of complex tasks.

AI for Robots: Training in Development

The robot revolution is now seeing a massive track in the present, especially as more developers create an expansive experience that brings more to the industry. More robots are getting better in time, and the latest developments will allow these mechanical technologies to learn from YouTube videos to boost more of their skills and productivity.

However, robots are not only for assistive technology that aids humans in their everyday lives.

Different robotic creations are used for testing various conditions that humans cannot be subjected to, and help researchers learn more about the body. The test manikin robot known as ANDI from the Arizona State University (ASU) can walk, breathe, and sweat like humans, with their testers subjecting them to extreme conditions.

Robots and AI have been in massive development for a long time now, and their incorporations bring significant growth to helping humans in their everyday lives. The PIGINet has significant applications for future household robots that will help in enhancing more of the problem-solving features and processes for a robot doing chores, and other requirements of its owners.