MIT professor Daniela Rus explains how AI-powered robots are being trained to safely assist in homes and daily life.

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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.