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title: "Manipulation Extrapolation: A System for Controlling Trainable Robots"
authors:
  - "Ronald W. Colman"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/40"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0040.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# Manipulation Extrapolation: A System for Controlling Trainable Robots

Ronald W. Colman

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

Program synthesis from exemplary data is employed as a context for the design of trainable robots. A method for inferring programs from sample execution traces is illustrated. The method provides a possible model of a way humans are trained-by-example. The convergence characteristics and the conditions sufficient to ensure them are briefly discussed.