Teaching Robots to Learn

Intelligent robots that can learn from their environment, and figure out how to execute novel complex tasks are looking like a very real possibility. Researchers from Iowa State University are working on software that will help robots learn at the level of a two year old child.

Scientific American explains:

In one set of experiments, the robot was presented with 36 different objects, including hockey pucks and Tupperware. It could perform five different actions

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