Latest Developmental robotics Stories

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Affetto, the infant robot currently in development at Osaka University in Japan, now has a torso and a pair of arms, bringing their attempt to create what some media outlets are dubbing "the most realistic infant robot ever made" one step closer to completion. While Affetto is "walking that still-precarious line between robots and humans," Mat Smith of Engadget, it now sports a "prototype upper body" that features a total of 22...

Iowa Staters advance developmental robotics with goal of teaching robots to learnAlexander Stoytchev and his three graduate students recently presented one of their robot's long and shiny arms to a visitor.Here, they said, swing it around.And so the visitor tentatively gave the robot's left arm a few twists and twirls. The metal arm was heavy, but still moved easily at its shoulder, elbow and wrist joints.Then the graduate students hit some keyboard commands and the robot replayed those exact...