Facebook Will Soon Release Habitat 2.0 To Train Robots To Help With Household Chores

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JAKARTA - Facebook is taking another step towards achieving its goal of what it calls "embodied AI." The company, at the same time introduced the Habitat 2.0 program.

The Habitat 2.0 program is known to contain an AI learning technology platform, which will one day enable robots to help with household chores. For example, filling the refrigerator with food ingredients, or making ice, even taking out the trash.

Facebook said as quoted from ZDNet, Saturday, July 3, this program aims to build improvements to the habitat simulation platform. Through this program, researchers will be able to train robots at high speed in virtual environments, such as kitchens, rooms, and others.

All can be done with the utmost detail and with precision that a robot might encounter. For robots to help with homework, they need training placed in hundreds of different habitats, spaces or real environments.

Of course it will cost more and more time to train the robot. With the habitat simulation platform in the Habitat 2.0 program, researchers at Facebook believe the application of AI will make it easier to create virtual space simulations to speed up robot training.

To make a simulation of a certain room, data related to a replica of a room is needed. Therefore, Facebook has prepared a platform that can create replica data from two years ago. At that time Facebook launched the first version of the Habitat program, which included creating replicas of various 3D scan compilations of various shapes of space.

An AI researcher at Facebook, Dhruv Batra said that with the presence of datasets and habitat simulation platforms, AI researchers would be able to do more than just build robots to move around in a static 3D room.

Batra explained that this new data set and platform will bring us closer to creating robots that can easily and reliably perform useful tasks such as filling the refrigerator, running the dishwasher, or picking up objects and returning them to their original place on command. .

Seeing this business is also promising, Facebook hopes that the habitat simulation platform in the Habitat 2.0 program will accelerate the development of robots that can help with household chores.