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For some reason I can’t look at MIT’s Leonardo robot without an involuntary shudder - I think it’s the lifelike fur and the evil, calculating eyes. Even scarier is to see it in motion (and there are videos after the cut), when complex facial mapping techniques have taken human expressions and reworked them for the robot’s face (which has 32 degrees of freedom).
Of course the clever people at MIT aren’t just making a particularly impressive toy; their intent is to research new ways of human/machine interaction, where robots are used to give a computer a naturalistic interface that users are comfortable working with.
“Once a task is learned, the robot should then be competent in its ability to provide assistance; understanding how to perform the task as well as how to perform it in partnership with a human”
Capable of being instructed by tutelage, where a user guides Leonardo to complete a task, by imitation, where Leonardo copies a demonstration, and social referencing, where Leonardo responds to a users reaction to a task, their goal is to end up with a machine that can learn from humans in their own terms, rather than them needing to be experts in programming.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7599178959058990307 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2677188667049278109I still think it looks like an evil squirrel monster.
MIT Leonardo [via Hacked Gadgets]
30 Responses to “MIT’s furry robot is capable of human learning”
Leandro May 23, 2007
really amazing. I love this.
+3hamacker May 24, 2007
Its a grammlim. :)
+1Nelinton May 24, 2007
Anybody said ‘Gizmo’?
Take care with water and food after midnight.
I think it’s time to spent money with warp drive development.
Regards
+1Ale May 24, 2007
It’s so… lovely!!! And smarter than some people i met at the university.
+2Julio May 24, 2007
é o fii do capetaaa…!!! (he’s demon’s son….!!!)
+2Marcos May 24, 2007
“He is ALIVE, he is ALIVE, Bwwrraahahahahaah”, LOL!
+3Guilherme Vieira May 24, 2007
Brilliant…
Such things makes me feel so ignorant(No, I actually can press buttons)..
But I want to learn AI coding… ;~
*Cries*
NeutralTina May 25, 2007
i want one ! =D
NeutralMichael May 25, 2007
I kept waiting for it to get annoyed with her telling it to do mundane things like turn buttons on and eventually pounce on her muahahahaha…. but seriously –> if gremlins taught us anything it was that water, food and cute furry creatures – ESPECIALLY electronic ones(haha) – dont mix!!
+1leo August 28, 2007
Is LEO the new PLEO? will LEO be PLEO’s pet or vice versa? I thought that was cool. i want one but my girlfriend wont get me one.
NeutralLeonardo October 22, 2007
Wow! Leonardo…
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Ty October 22, 2007
It looks awesome but yet in a sense quite scary… :-P
NeutralGerard Mostert November 22, 2007
I don’t think these people know what they doing, all the Gremlin needs to do is get onto the World Wide Web, and Presto! control us! Oh Boy!!!
NeutralEbol Hobbs December 9, 2007
i just want one
Neutralliliana February 6, 2008
this is a verry goot robot, I like robots
NeutralReaper and dillhole February 9, 2008
its a cross between a gremlin and a freackin lawnmower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( So shiny… Must have….. Stick it in her pooper!!!!!) I wonder if that thing can shit on my dog?
Neutral3sooool February 22, 2008
is it available to by ?
where i can by it ?????????
it is pearfect
Neutralcraig friday June 1, 2008
what else can you teach leo
NeutralJustin December 1, 2008
Neat robot…does the girl come with it?
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