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[release]How can curiosity help robots to communicate with humans? That's the question [URL="http://www.pyoudeyer.com/]"]Pierre-Yves Oudeyer[/URL], head of the Flowers team at research institution [URL="http://www.inria.fr/centre/Bordeaux"]INRIA[/URL], in Bordeaux, France, wants to answer - and to do it he is enlisting visitors to an art gallery in central Paris. Tucked away in an egg-shaped structure at the Fondation Cartier lurk five ergo-robots - skull-faced, chirruping critters programmed with [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7561"]artificial curiosity[/URL] and [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17323364.300-first-words.html?full=true"]language acquisition[/URL]algorithms designed by Oudeyer and his team. The ergo-robots are also equipped with sensors that allow them to interact with the curious public who have come to peer at them daily since their installation in October. [T]http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/13/2nd-pic-ErgoRobots17.jpg[/T] [I]The robots are part of a mathematical art exhibition, [URL="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/11/mathematics-as-the-raw-material-for-art.html"]Beautiful Elsewhere[/URL], but they are not just there to be gawped at. They, and their audience, are taking part in a five-month long experiment called [URL="http://flowers.inria.fr/ergo-robots.php"]Ergo-Robots: Artificial Curiosity and Language[/URL], which is looking at how the robots learn to interact not only with themselves, but with real humans too.[/I] [I]Due to their fragility, experiments involving curiosity-driven robots are usually limited to two or three days. This is the longest experiment to date and is also the first time that curiosity-driven robots have been exposed to humans behaving naturally - previous studies have always involved a human behaving like another pre-programmed robot.[/I] [T]http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/13/1st pic ErgoRobots13.jpg[/T] [I][I]From what he has observed so far Oudeyer believes his experiment shows promise. The curious robots explore how to change the behaviour of their human observers, who then react, forming a feedback loop, he says. Eventually "a simple structured and conventionalised form of communication shall self-organise between the robots and the humans," he adds.[/I][/I] [I][I]Oudeyer hopes that the experiment might point to how artificial organisms learn social skills and communication, something that might inform research into cognitive and social development in infants along with new ways to engineer human-robot interactions.[/I][/I] [I][I]The exhibition is open until March 18th.[/I][/I] [/release] [URL="http://bcove.me/rjzsxm58"]Video(nightmare fuel[/URL]) [URL=http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/curious-robots-learn-to-intera.html]Source[/url]

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skull bots

[I]Engineers condition humans to be afraid of robots. More at 10[/I]

I can see why you'd want to do these experiments, and I can see why they might want to give the robots little faces. But why are those faces [i]screaming?[/i]

what the fuck am I watching

I rated winner but then I realised that you poke your head into a hole just to have one of them staring at you with that horrified face. Now I'm scared of them.

My God They're HUGE At first, I thought they were small, but as soon as I saw that man right there I knew I was wrong.

The video was creepy and fucked up.

This is awesome and terrifying at the same time.

I could see this going the way of cleverbot.

Creepy

Remind me of the tentacles from HL. Except with those creepy skull faces on.

Reminds me of the WH40K Skullprobes. Ewwwww....

wow this is barely art at all, I mean look at how basic the colours are I bet barely any paint was used at all in this! grrr grr grrrr

I honestly like this a quite bit. The way their designed gives me ideas of aliens trying to comprehend humanity and how they work.

I want to put one in a toilet in a public place then watch as it leaps out at people.

They look so sad. :(

-bad reading

oh my GOD what the fuck couldn't they have picked a less creepy face

[QUOTE=Zeke129;34200516]wow this is barely art at all, I mean look at how basic the colours are I bet barely any paint was used at all in this! grrr grr grrrr[/QUOTE] Needs more shit to be art.

[IMG]http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/13/1st pic ErgoRobots13.jpg[/IMG] What is that one in the background doing

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;34202061][IMG]http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/13/1st pic ErgoRobots13.jpg[/IMG] What is that one in the background doing[/QUOTE] Imitating an Ostrich.

I immediately thought of them learning how to use needles and poking whoever peeks through in the eyes.

They are kinda cute in the video.

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;34202061][IMG]http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/13/1st pic ErgoRobots13.jpg[/IMG] What is that one in the background doing[/QUOTE] Trying to kill itself. It can't find any booze.

servo skulls?

Looking at the pictures they're not so bad. Then you see the video.

Why are scientist hellbent on making robots the most terrifying, godforsaken creatures on the planet? They delve so deep in the uncanny valley they surpass "valley" and quickly go into an uncanny cave. Are scientist just completely retarded when it comes to art, aesthetics, or something that doesn't make me want to shit my pants?

[quote]How can curiosity help robots to communicate with humans? [/quote] I have an idea guys. It might be crazy but hear me out. Don't make them terrifying. edit: The video with them "dancing" reminds me of something from Zelda for some reason.