iCub Learns Objects
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 3 of August , 2009 at 5:34 am
iCub, that creepy drum-playing robot baby, is doing its best to develop cognition skills on par with those of a 3 year old human. In this demonstration, iCub has been taught to learn to recognize objects placed in front of it, and then focus attention on those objects if it sees them later.
Like the robot hand we posted about earlier today, this is one of those little tricks that we do without thinking but are necessary for intuitive human interactions with robots. This particular cognitive skill, for example, might help home robots learn directly from you in the same way a person would: show them an object and give them instruction related to that object, and they won’t have to bother you about it again… Which is more than can be said for most humans.
Incidentally, it’s kinda amazing how much of a difference eyelids make when it comes to de-uncannifying a robot:
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Category: Androids, Research, Uncanny Valley
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Comment by Joey1058
Made Monday, 3 of August , 2009 at 12:07 pm
Eye contact is nice, but designing robot babies, they need to include facial expressions. Half to 3/4ers of a baby’s communications is facial movements.
Comment by Nils
Made Sunday, 16 of August , 2009 at 9:16 am
Couldn’t you say “cannyfying” instead of de-uncannyfying?