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Robots must be precise, safe and learn fast, being sample-efficient. This chapter presents the difficulties to achieve such endeavour and sets the objectives of this monograph.
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Colomé, A., Torras, C. (2020). Introduction. In: Reinforcement Learning of Bimanual Robot Skills. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 134. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26326-3_1
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