"This work is a departure from how robots are programmed today. The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks.

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However, teaching a robot how much force to use and which angle to clean at are entirely different matters. To overcome this challenge, the team used a new approach.

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RHyME requires just 30 minutes of robot data; in a lab setting, robots trained using the system achieved a more than 50% increase in task success compared to previous methods, the researchers said.