Fudan Intelligent Robot Learns To Fit In

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday November 8, 2007 @05:42PM from the our-little-robot-grows-up dept.

martinsslaves writes "Shanghais' Fudan University have made some considerable progress in their endeavors in learning robots, with their new 'Fudan Intelligent Robot' looking a whole lot more polished than their previous Fudan-1 model. The goal is for the robot to learn new tasks by following voice commands, which the researchers hope could eventually allow the robot to help the elderly or become a 'good household mate' for families. Among other things, the bot can currently can plot out its own map of its surroundings and remember specific locations and, of course, change TV channels at your command (or even serve as a TV itself)."

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Re:Remote Remote by sm62704 · 2007-11-09 02:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But can it fetch a beer? No? Then what damned good is it!!!!

old joke: "I never curse, don't drink, and always treat woman with respect. Now get me a fucking beer, bitch!"

-mcgrew

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mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest