There is no good data set that exists using which we can train a robot to perform various tasks like grabbing complex objects reliably, understand and perform other simple tasks. The only way to create this kind of data is to let the robot go through these experiences like a human baby (in a more controlled manner)

In order to create a general purpose robot that humans have dreamt about for ages now, we need a single type of robot in the hands of many researchers, in the industry performing simple tasks, and in houses. Then we need to keep updating a single AI system with the learning from all these replicas of the robot continuously adding more skills that build on top of existing ones until we have a robotic system building buildings, cooking, washing our clothes etc.

The goal of the project is to build a robotic platform geared towards AI at a cheap price and also provide an open source AI platform to merge the learning from multiple sources into a single AI continuously.