Robotics & Machine Learning

New Robotics - Androids Study Findings Recently Were Published by Researchers at Osaka University

  2012 JAN 30 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to the authors of recent research from Osaka, Japan, "One of the most promising approaches to understand human cognitive and developmental mechanisms is a synthetic approach using humanoid robots; an approach to understand the human cognitive functions by realizing them with the robots. Humans are so complicated and it is difficult to mimic the well-developed human by robotic technologies."

  "Therefore, it is necessary to understand how humans develop the complicated functions during the developmental process. We may be able to develop infant functions and make them evolve by tracing the human developmental process. This new study requires robot platforms that can mimic various aspects of the human developmental process," wrote H. Ishiguro and colleagues, Osaka University.

  The researchers concluded: "This paper introduces a series of robot platforms that we have developed for the studies with the synthetic approach."

  Ishiguro and colleagues published their study in International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (Humanoid Platforms For Cognitive Developmental Robotics. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2011;8(3):391-418).

  For additional information, contact H. Ishiguro, Osaka University, Grad Sch Engn, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan.

  Publisher contact information for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics is: World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd, 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224, Singapore.

  Keywords: City:Osaka, Country:Japan, Region:Asia, Nano-robot, Machine Learning, Robotics - Androids, Emerging Technologies

  This article was prepared by VerticalNews Robotics & Machine Learning editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2012, VerticalNews Robotics & Machine Learning via VerticalNews.com.