Teach Robots to Learn Like Children

Computer scientists, in collaboration with developmental psychologists at the University of Washington, have demonstrated that robots can learn much like children. Like infants, robots can gain knowledge through exploration, watching, and then determining how best to carry out specific tasks on their own. Learn how the UW researchers took the information they gathered about babies and used it todevelop machine learning algorithms that allow a robot to explore how its own actions result in different outcomes.

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