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Filed under: Babies, Toddlers Preschoolers, Development/Milestones: Babies, Media
In order to learn more about child development, scientists at Osaka University in Japan have created a robot that moves and acts like a toddler.
It talks with an artificial vocal cord, can change facial expressions and crawl around the floor. Like a real toddler, when it walks, it wobbles a bit.
Says Minoru Asada, a professor at Osaka University, "Our goal is to study human recognition development such as how the child learns a language, recognizes objects and learns to communicate with his father and mother."
The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, isn't exactly like a real toddler. It doesn't throw temper tantrums and at 4 feet, 3 inches tall, is bigger than my six year old. And slightly creepy-looking, don't you think?
It talks with an artificial vocal cord, can change facial expressions and crawl around the floor. Like a real toddler, when it walks, it wobbles a bit.
Says Minoru Asada, a professor at Osaka University, "Our goal is to study human recognition development such as how the child learns a language, recognizes objects and learns to communicate with his father and mother."
The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, isn't exactly like a real toddler. It doesn't throw temper tantrums and at 4 feet, 3 inches tall, is bigger than my six year old. And slightly creepy-looking, don't you think?
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6-09-2007 @ 10:24AM
Lt said...THAT is the creepiest thing I've EVER seen!!!
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6-09-2007 @ 11:16AM
rebecca Biernesser said...sooo I wanna know how they prgramed the robot to act like a toddler...and if they had to program it, how is it going to show them anything??? If you want to know what a toddler learns and how they act, watch the rael thing and several of them, b/c lord knows they are all different. :-)
btw, that thing is ugly
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6-09-2007 @ 10:00PM
Belinda said...CREEPY!!!!
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