Like a Child, `Smart’ Robot Learns Gradually

August 17, 2001 07:40 CDT

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According to Knight Ridder Newspaper, that’s the way John Weng, a robotics expert at Michigan State University, is teaching a robot to learn like a child, to obey spoken commands, trundle down a hall, find and pick up toys with its mechanical hand.

Weng is breeding a new kind of “intelligent” robot that learns in a novel way: by experience, the way animals and people do.

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