Robots learn to handle objects, understand new places
Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 14:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Infants spend their first few months learning to find their way around and manipulating objects, and they are very flexible about it: Cups can come in different shapes and sizes, but they all have handles. So do pitchers, so we pick them up the same way. Now researchers are teaching robots to manipulate objects and find their way around in new environments.