An Interview with Chelsea Finn: AI for Robotics
As part of our AI in Your Community series, I had the chance to speak to Chelsea Finn, a PhD student at UC Berkeley currently doing work with machine learning and robotics. Through her work she teaches robots how to perform tasks in multiple environments, with the goal of having these robots perform tasks for humans that they can’t perform, or that it would be dangerous for humans to perform.
Chelsea Finn
Tara Chklovski: Tell me a bit about your work. What research are you working on?
Chelsea Finn: I am a PhD student at UC Berkeley, and I work on machine learning and AI for robotics. A lot of my work entails having physical robots learn how to do things in the world, like screw a cap onto a bottle, or use a spatula, or pick up objects and rearrange them. Our goal is to have systems that can learn to do these different tasks so that they can go into a variety of environments and perform those tasks for humans – or perform dangerous jobs that we don’t want humans to do.
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