A bald, child-like creature dangles its legs from a chair as its shoulders rise and fall with rhythmic breathing and its black eyes follow movements across the room. It’s not human but it is paying attention. Below the soft silicon skin of one of Japan’s most sophisticated robots, processors record and evaluate information. The 130-cm humanoid is designed to learn just like a human infant.
The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it’s slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. The Osaka University team is trying to teach the pint-sized android to think like a baby who evaluates its mother’s countless facial expressions and clusters them into basic categories, such as happiness and sadness. The project brings together robotics engineers, brain specialists, psychologists and other experts, and is supported by the state-funded Japan Science and Management.
The creators of the Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, say it’s slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. The Osaka University team is trying to teach the pint-sized android to think like a baby who evaluates its mother’s countless facial expressions and clusters them into basic categories, such as happiness and sadness. The project brings together robotics engineers, brain specialists, psychologists and other experts, and is supported by the state-funded Japan Science and Management.
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