Scientists Create Robot Toddler

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Get this, a group of scientists in Japan have made a child-sized robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development. What?!? Did Japan run out of real children to observe or something? :rolleyes:

The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team of researchers at Osaka University in western Japan and is designed to move just like a real child aged between one and three years old.
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So adults have programmed a robot to behave like a child. How is studying that going to offer accurate, legitimate results?

Wouldn't the robot only behave within the capacity of existing childhood development understanding?
 
To create something that behaves like something else, you first have to study how that something else behaves. It's one thing to study something enough to write papers about it. It's quite another to study something in order to make an artificial copy of it. They aren't going to study how the robot behaves after it's made. Rather, the process of making it gives the opportunity to learn a lot more than simply observing or reading about it.

Now, after it's made, a robot is better suited for observation because you can "rewind", make alterations, accelerate the process, slow down the process, slap it around a little to see how it reacts to being abused, threaten it with lit cigarettes, drink too much and yell at it, leave it alone for days at a time with only moldy bread, water and a hole to pee in...

Scientists can't do these things with a real child. Well, they can, and probably have, but there are "ethics" and "morals" involved I guess :rolleyes:
 
Vryce said:
Now, after it's made, a robot is better suited for observation because you can "rewind", make alterations, accelerate the process, slow down the process, slap it around a little to see how it reacts to being abused, threaten it with lit cigarettes, drink too much and yell at it, leave it alone for days at a time with only moldy bread, water and a hole to pee in...

Scientists can't do these things with a real child. Well, they can, and probably have, but there are "ethics" and "morals" involved I guess :rolleyes:
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:eek:...........................so so scared now. I got the number of a great therapist. Let me know if ya want it.

*backs away slowly* ;)
 
Couldn't they have saved a lot of money and just asked any parent? Kids have a wonderfully simple view of the world.It's the adults who I've never been able to figure out!::D
 
Vryce said:
To create something that behaves like something else, you first have to study how that something else behaves. It's one thing to study something enough to write papers about it. It's quite another to study something in order to make an artificial copy of it. They aren't going to study how the robot behaves after it's made. Rather, the process of making it gives the opportunity to learn a lot more than simply observing or reading about it.

Now, after it's made, a robot is better suited for observation because you can "rewind", make alterations, accelerate the process, slow down the process, slap it around a little to see how it reacts to being abused, threaten it with lit cigarettes, drink too much and yell at it, leave it alone for days at a time with only moldy bread, water and a hole to pee in...

Scientists can't do these things with a real child. Well, they can, and probably have, but there are "ethics" and "morals" involved I guess :rolleyes:
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lol I got a good laugh out of that, thanks :)

That is one creepy looking robot though.

Video here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5226971059859418750&hl=en-AU
 
Manny Calavera said:
Spielbergs A.I. was a very sad and creepy movie I will never forget watching. :(
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Seriously. The performance of Frances O'Connor was good. Kubric's movies have a lot of occult in them if you study them. Spielberg ruined it.
 
Guess theres no time for children in your life when your to buisy enginering robot children.:rolleyes:
 
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