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Robot Hand Learns How To Learn From Babies

Posted by Zonk on from the everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-in-the-comments dept.

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.'"

2 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. Robot grabbing and shoving things in its mouth by JetlagMk2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one worried here?

  2. Re:Not too useful by Nos. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Simple, you learn how they learn. Children learn alot in the first few years of their life, and the rate at which they learn can be quite astonishing.