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Kindred Introduces SenseActTM, the First Reinforcement Learning Open-Source Toolkit for Physical Robots
Kindred, an AI and robotics company that builds intelligence for robots,
has announced today the launch of SenseAct, the first open-source
toolkit to set-up reinforcement learning tasks on physical robots.
Kindred's SenseAct was created to provide robotics developers and
researchers with a consistent, learnable interface that efficiently
controls for time delays, a factor that simulation environments aren't
hindered by.
"SenseAct is an important new step in machine learning research on
robots, enabling consistent and reproducible results on physical robots
for the first time. It will establish a standard that may greatly
accelerate machine learning research on physical robots, pushing
reinforcement learning to a new level of performance just as large
standard data sets have for supervised learning," said Richard S.
Sutton, professor of Computing Science and AITF Chair in Reinforcement
Learning and Artificial Intelligence at University of Alberta.
SenseAct allows reinforcement learning agents written for OpenAI's
popular "gym" simulator to lear behaviors for robots, by insulating
them from the complexity of real-time control of robotic components.
SenseAct's guiding principles of minimizing delays and maximizing timing
consistency via proactive computation lead to responsive learned
behavior and reliable learning via state-of-the-art algorithms.
"This initial release focuses on tasks that explore timing, control
frequency, action representation, partial observation, and sparse
reward. We intend to update SenseAct as we define new tasks to reflect
challenges in developing efficient, general, intuitive behaviors for our
current and future products," says James Bergstra, Head of AI Research
at Kindred.
SenseAct allows general reinforcement learning algorithms to learn
diverse tasks on diverse robots, and is made freely available for anyone
to explore and extend. For more information, visit www.kindred.ai/senseact
About Kindred
Founded in 2014, Kindred is building artificial intelligence for robotic
grasping solutions. SORT, its first commercial product, is currently
operating in major ecommerce retailers throughout the US. For more
information, visit www.kindred.ai
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