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Post by whisker on Dec 16, 2011 21:54:20 GMT
Aside from above, seems they have invented a "child" robot, that can "learn" like a child. |
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Post by whisker on Dec 16, 2011 21:58:42 GMT
Suita, Japan, March 10, 2009--With a creepy-cute face only a mother could love, 4-foot-tall (130-centimeter-tall) CB2 (shown in a photo released April 4) was born in an Osaka University lab. The robot "child" sports 51 air-powered actuators and 5 motors as well as 197 tactile sensors under its silicone skin.
Professor Minoru Asada's team is trying to teach the android to think like a baby: evaluating the countless facial expressions of its "mother" and grouping them into basic categories, such as happiness and sadness. And, the team says, it's working--CB2 is gradually adding to its repertoire of social skills.
— Photograph by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images |
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Post by joebert on Dec 17, 2011 3:12:02 GMT
If you had to spank it for being bad, would that be wrong?
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Post by whisker on Dec 17, 2011 6:54:07 GMT
That would be a problem, if it decided to rebel when a teenager? 
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