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When coming across a pile of play dough the fluorescent, rubbery concoction of water, salt, and flour that popularized goo the inner kid in many of us experience an overpowering sense of excitement (even if it only seldom occurs in maturity).
A new two-stage learning system could enable robots to learn abstract ideas about how and when to execute a skill during a task, like using a rolling pin while making pizza.