The video shows recent success in robot learning for two basic motor tasks, namely, ball-in-a-cup and ball paddling.
The video illustrates Section 15.3.5 -- Policy Search, of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2nd edn (2016).
Reference: J. Kober, J. Peters: Imitation and reinforcement learning - Practical algorithms for motor primitive learning in robotics, IEEE Robot. Autom. Mag. 17(2), 55-62 (2010)
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Katharina Mülling for being our robot teacher.