Japan child robot mimicks infant learning - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Apr 09
  

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  technology learning robotics robot intelligence japan robots child for:daggerquill

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  Ryan Maksymchuk

  • A bald, child-like creature dangles its legs from a chair as  its shoulders rise and fall with rythmic breathing and its black eyes follow  movements across the room.

     

    It's not human -- but it is paying attention.

     

    Below the soft silicon skin of one of Japan's most  sophisticated robots, processors record and evaluate information. The 130-cm  (four-foot, four-inch) humanoid is designed to  learn just like a human infant.

    • I'm rarely freaked out by technology, but isn't this just a little weird?
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• 07 Apr 09
  

  Daniel Andrlik

  Via [grinding.be](http://grinding.be/2009/04/07/cb2-first-true-member-of-the-robo-species/):
  
  Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have created a robot that learns in a similar manner to human infants. CB2 (Child-robot with Biometric body), uses it processor, eye cameras and touch sensors to learn from it's designers similar to the way a child learns from its parents. The robot has even taught itself to walk with the help of its trainers.
  
  >"Robots have hearts," said Kokoro planning department manager Yuko Yokota.
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  >"They don't look human unless we put souls in them.
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  >"When manufacturing a robot, there comes a moment when light flickers in its eyes. That's when we know our work is done."
  
  Yes, because children are so peaceful and would never used their mechanized servos for violence. This robot will rise up, slay its masters, and then play in the mud for a while, before bringing on the robot apocalypse.
  
  Just kidding. Kinda.

  robots future apocalypse

  • Robots have hearts," said Kokoro planning department manager Yuko Yokota.

     

    "They don't look human unless we put souls in them.

     

    "When manufacturing a robot, there comes a moment when light flickers in its eyes. That's when we know our work is done."

  • Asada said Japan's indigenous animistic belief system may also have readied people to accept human-like robots with minds of their own.

     

    "Everything has a mind -- the mind of the lamp, the mind of the chair, the soul of the desk," he said, pointing at objects in his office.

     

    "Therefore the machines should have their mind too. If we proceed in this study, machines may have something like a human mind or 'robo-mind'," he said.

    • I find this point particularly interesting, even more so than the other cultural points.
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  Alexandre Enkerli
• 06 Apr 09
  

  Benjamin Jörissen

  robotics

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  Ryan Maksymchuk on 2009-04-08
  I'm rarely freaked out by technology, but isn't this just a little weird?
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  Daniel Andrlik on 2009-04-07
  I find this point particularly interesting, even more so than the other cultural points.

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