January 16, 2024 at 12:44 am They are using tele-operating training to teach it this skill for multiple reasons and they don’t include an attempt to create a robot butler who will fold shirts or a robot sweatshops replacement. My suppositions: One is that in addition to demonstrating the hardware capabilities, folding a shirt does inspire people to dream about robot butlers and sweatshop replacements and imagine what else it might be able to do. A mix of hype and hope. A more important reason is that because of how neural net “AI” work, tasks often cross over so teaching it as many and as varied tasks (or more accurately, getting the training data to teach it said tasks) as possible can help it do other things that don’t immediately seem related just as teaching a child music lessons improves academic performance in non-music related subjects. Djsnola