LinkNotes: iCub

2008-05-02

iCub A Robot with Artificial Intelligence

Robots developed on the iCub platform have technologies for – grasping, locomotion, interaction, and even language-action association – these are of great relevance to further advances in the field of industrial service robotics.

clipped from robotland.blogspot.com

iCub robot learns baby talk

iCub will be the first robot in the world which will learn, think and talk like a human with help of specialists who research how parents teach children to speak. Over the next four years robotics experts in the European ITALK project will work with language development. The experiments with the iCub robot will include activities such as inserting objects of various shapes into the corresponding holes in a box, serialising nested cups and stacking wooden blocks.

clipped from www.tech.plym.ac.uk

The ITALK project aims to develop artificial embodied agents able to acquire complex behavioural,cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning.
This will be achieved through experiments with the iCub humanoid robot to learn to handle and manipulate objects and tools autonomously, to cooperate and communicate with other robots and humans, and to adapt to changing internal, environmental, and social conditions.

clipped from www.youtube.com

ITALK Project - interview with Angelo Cangelosi

2008-03-01

iCub -- The talking baby robot

Scientists at the University of Plymouth will begin a study to determine if they can teach a baby robot how to talk.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

A university in Devon is preparing to find out if a baby robot can be taught to talk.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

A consortium led by the University of Plymouth beat competition from 31 others to win a £4.7-million grant for the Italk - Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots - project.

The team will attempt to educate a humanoid robot called 'iCub'(www.robotcub.org) which, at a metre tall, is the same size as a three year old toddler and is able to crawl, sit up, feel, see and hear.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

ICub

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The iCub is a small-size humanoid robot being designed by the RobotCub Consortium, consisting of several European universities. The main goal of this platform is to study cognition through the implementation of biological motivated algorithms. This is an open project in many different ways: it will distribute its platform openly and it will develop software open-source.