Once Is Enough: Helping Robots Learn Quickly In New Environments

Alone at home, your bones creaky due to old age, you crave a cool beverage. 

You turn to your robot and say, “Please get me a tall glass of water from the refrigerator.” 

Your AI-trained companion obliges. 

Soon, your thirst is quenched. 

While this scenario still is a decade or more away in terms of a...