(RoboVac) Building a home robot to autonomously clean our house
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Two engineers built a custom robot vacuum for under $500 instead of buying one, using off-the-shelf parts and training it through behavior cloning where they manually controlled it to collect image-action data pairs. The robot streams video to a laptop for processing and learned basic obstacle avoidance, but struggles with navigation decisions due to insufficient training data signals for turning movements.
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