Video: The robot that learns like a child
Could a robot learn its tasks as easily and as naturally as a child?
Sylvain Calinon and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne think so. They have created software that allows them to teach a humanoid robot new tasks – such as how to move chess pieces – simply by . The 60-centimetre-tall robot, called HOAP-3, is made by Fujitsu.
In humans, parents “mould” children in this way, when teaching them how to hold a pen, for example. “We are taking insights from studies in developmental psychology and…
