Robo Brain is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals, all being translated and stored in a robot-friendly format.
The reason: to serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave.
Image: Robotic arm placing an object in a specific location (credit: Saxena Lab)