Training Robots to Identify Other Robots

Amitabha Banerjee successfully trained his Anki Vector robot to detect other robots using YOLOv5 and Roboflow, a project with potential real-world implications for robotic collaboration. Banerjee collected and annotated 303 images of robots in various conditions, processed them with Roboflow for training, and used Google Colab and a T4 GPU to train his model over 50 epochs. The results showed promising performance, with the model performing well in different video backgrounds. Banerjee has shared his dataset for public use and hopes to see further improvements and applications from the community, while also anticipating the open-source release of Vector's firmware to deploy the model directly onto the robot.