Category google-researches

Robust Routing Using Electrical Flows

Posted by Ali Kemal Sinop and Kostas Kollias, Research Scientists, Google Research In the world of networks, there are models that can explain observations across a diverse collection of applications. These include simple tasks such as computing the shortest path,…

The Balloon Learning Environment

Posted by Joshua Greaves, Software Engineer and Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Benchmark challenges have been a driving force in the advancement of machine learning (ML). In particular, difficult benchmark environments for reinforcement learning (RL)…

Robot See, Robot Do

Posted by Kevin Zakka, Student Researcher and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google People learn to do things by watching others — from mimicking new dance moves, to watching YouTube cooking videos. We’d like robots to do the same,…

Can Robots Follow Instructions for New Tasks?

Posted by Chelsea Finn, Research Adviser and Eric Jang, Senior Research Scientist, Robotics at Google People can flexibly maneuver objects in their physical surroundings to accomplish various goals. One of the grand challenges in robotics is to successfully train robots…