Learning to crawl before they walk makes for smarter robots
By Darren Quick
22:41 January 20, 2011
Everyone knows that, unless you’re extraordinarily gifted, you need to crawl before you can walk. Turns out the same principle could also apply to robots. In a first-of-its-kind experiment conducted by University of Vermont (UVM) roboticist Josh Bongard created both simulated and physical robots that, like tadpoles becoming frogs, change their body forms while learning how to walk. He found that these evolving robots were able to learn more rapidly than ones with fixed body forms and that, in their final form, the changing robots had developed a more robust gait. Read More
1 comment:
I've never seen a robot in action, but that's the upcoming future!
In my hotel in Montevideo somebody told me that they were about to try a robot that would clean the rooms!
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