Thursday, June 21, 2007

Pleo

Pleo is available for pre-order to ship in October. via NOTCOT

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Creepy Baby Bot

Creepy Japanese Baby Robot

Meet Leonardo



Created by MIT Robotics -
"Rather than requiring people to learn a new form of communication to interact with robots or to teach them, our research concerns developing robots that are natural for people to teach and collaborate with. In contrast to many statistical learning approaches that require hundreds or thousands of trials or labeled examples to train the system, our goal is for robots to quickly learn new skills and tasks from natural human instruction and few demonstrations. Once a task is learned, the robot should then be competent in its ability to provide assistance; understanding how to perform the task as well as how to perform it in partnership with a human."