Swiss scientists from the Zurich Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have created a robot called CyberRunner with artificial intelligence (AI) that can handle the game “Maze” faster than any human. The results of the experiment were published at: Web site project.
“Maze” is a game in which you have to guide a small metal ball through a maze using the slopes of the playing field. The task is complicated by the large number of holes along the route.
According to the developers, CyberRunner was one of the first cases where artificial intelligence surpassed humans in a competition of dexterity and coordination. Before that, neural networks had successfully beaten humans at chess, poker, and Go, but they were less likely to perform well in the real world on tests of fine motor skills and spatial thinking.
CyberRunner became the Maze master in just six hours, completing the task flawlessly in 14.48 seconds; this was faster than any human player. During the learning process, the machine learned to shorten the path, so scientists had to intervene and force the neural network to play fair. But even in this case, the device showed a record result.
Previously South Korean scientists was created The robot dog that broke the world speed record in the 100 meter race.