AI2 Introduces Object Manipulation in Robotics Testing Scenario

AI2-THOR celebrates five years by gaining an arm called ManipulaTHOR. Seattle | April 22, 2021 09:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) announced the 3.0 release of its embodied artificial intelligence framework AI2-THOR, which adds active object manipulation to its already impressive testing framework. ManipulaTHOR is a first-of-its-kind virtual agent with a highly articulated robot arm equipped with swiveling joints to bring a more human-like approach to interacting with a variety of objects.