Robot Baby M3-Neony Doesn’t Make Me Cry

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 4 of March , 2010 at 12:19 am

Somehow, the M3-Neony comes from the same lab that inflicted the CB2 robot child on the world. But obviously, they’ve learned from their questionable design decisions of the past and have moved on to research robots for cognitive development and motor learning that don’t look utterly freakish. The M3-Neony is the same size, shape, and weight as a real baby, and just like a real baby (as far as I know, anyway), it has 22 motors, 2 cameras, 90 tactile sensors, and an integrated computer. It’s fully autonomous, and is designed to wander around on its own, after figuring out how to stand and walk based on your programming. Hypothetically, the process of programming M3-Neony to learn to walk will provide insights into how humans figure out the whole process.

This other robot is called M3-Synchy, and it’s kinda like the bot we wrote about yesterday in form, although rather than being a telepresence robot it’s designed to study how humans communicate with multiple robots, specifically using non-verbal means. Seems like it would be pretty cool if these two bots teamed up. Or, like, fought each other. Either way.

[ Osaka University (Translated) ] VIA [ GetRobo ]

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