The actual robotics part is definitely deep learning though.
Why? Moving machine arms smoothly has been a thing for a long time.
And I would argue that whilst the machine learning way is pretty complex it's still simpler than 3d motion planning of moving robot platforms. And one machine learning solution can adapt to many robots with just retraining, without redoing the formulas from scratch.
* technically on a moving robot platform it hasn't entirely been solved, but good enough solutions do exist.
> And I would argue that whilst the machine learning way is pretty complex it's still simpler than 3d motion planning of moving robot platforms.
On what grounds do you think this? 3d motion planning isn't complex in these scenarios.
> And one machine learning solution can adapt to many robots with just retraining, without redoing the formulas from scratch.
You don't redo the formulas from scratch, you just plug in the specs of the robot and then you have it. Positioning and moving arm parts is a solved problem. Redoing machine learning for every arm seems much more cumbersome.