Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Robot learns to recognize objects on its own

When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on a table – and figured out how it could lift them.The researchers didn't even know the objects were in the room. Instead of being frightened at their robot's independent streak, the researchers po.