The Robot Learning Curve: What 1,000 Tasks in One Day Means for Workers’ Comp (Spoiler: We’re Not Ready)

I’ve been watching the robotics news with the kind of morbid fascination usually reserved for horror movies where you know the ending won’t be good but you can’t look away. The latest development? Researchers have taught a robot to learn 1,000 different physical tasks in a single day using just one demonstration per task. One day. One…