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Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-welcome-our-new-canine-robot-linguistic-overlords dept.

bab00n writes According to this article at The Engineer Online, researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication. The technology, dubbed Embedded and Communicating Agents, has allowed researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in France to add a new level of intelligence to the AIBO dog. The robot dog has learnt to see a ball and tell another one where the ball is, if it's moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it.

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  2. i don't buy it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i really don't believe this story has much more than an ioata of truth to it. i think my two year old can do math problems sometimes, because his morning brown trout has a weight that's always a power of two.