Robot Hand Learns How To Learn From Babies 76
jcasman writes "Wired's got a piece on building a better robotic hand at Stanford. The new robot is called Stair 1.0, and scientists are hoping to take a cue from human children for how to teach a robot to learn. 'When a computer fails at a task, it spouts an error message. Babies, on the other hand, just try again a different way, exploring the world by grabbing new objects -- shoving them into their mouths if possible -- to acquire additional data. This built-in drive to explore teaches us how to use our brains and bodies. Now a number of hand-focused roboticists are building machines with the same childlike motivation to explore, fail, and learn through their hands.'"
Robot grabbing and shoving things in its mouth (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Robot grabbing and shoving things in its mouth (Score:3, Funny)
*nom nom nom*
About time! (Score:4, Funny)
Access gives me the most amusing error messages. "Error 3417: there is no message for this error" (the message is real, the number I pulled out of my ass).
But thinking about it, a robot looking for better data might be a good idea, but a computer? That might worrry me.
Don't forget that a computer, even one running a robot, is just an alectronic abacus, nothing like a human or any other animal's brain. The temptation is to anthropomorphise [wikipedia.org].
-mcgrew
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Let me be the umpteenth... (Score:3, Funny)
baby programmers? (Score:1, Funny)
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