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one of the biggest mysteries of uh
science today is to understand how human
infants develop which is to say how do
an infant's skills and capabilities get
more and more complex Pierre Eve UD is
trying to solve this mystery with robots
robots that are capable of learning
about each other and their surroundings
that can by
themsel acquire new skills and New
Concept in an open-ended manner ud's
robots were on display for the general
public in Paris at fundas Cartier and
David Lynch is the artist who designed
the robot heads which convey well let's
have Lynch say what they convey each
viewer they'll feel a little personality
come through I think they would want to
be you know friends with the robots the
robots can sense the world around them
in three ways the first is curiosity
driven learning curiosity driven
learning whereby the robots explore how
to control and manipulate objects yeah
yeah they are curious little beings yeah
then the second is imitation imitation
of people look at that they're watching
they're thinking they're trying to
figure things out they seem to be
learning something and the final
mechanism spontaneously inventing a new
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language the robots Converge on a set of
words developing a shared way of
describing the objects in their world
the results of this work might one day
help us design robots capable of
interacting with and learning from us
and in so doing they might just teach us
about our own development our first
words steps and thoughts
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