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China develops world's first robot that can tie shoelaces

Zhao Chenchen

01:07

China's ByteDance on Tuesday introduced a reinforcement learning model that enables robots to reliably handle longer, more delicate tasks outside the laboratory.

The model boosts the success rate of threading shoelaces to 83 percent, whereas a robot trained via traditional imitation can achieve only 45 percent. Check out this episode of Hot Take to learn more about the world's first robot that can tie shoelaces!

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