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| Written by Lautaro Vargas | |
| Wednesday, 05 March 2008 | |
 Look who’s talking R2 D2 Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv and Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Computer Science are working with an international consortium on ITALK (Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots). ITALK aims to teach the robot to speak by employing the same methods used by parents to teach their children. Prof Nehaniv and Prof Dautenhahn, who are European leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Human Robot Interaction, will conduct experiments in human and robot language interaction to enable the robot to converse with humans. Typical 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. Next, the iCub will be asked to name objects and actions so that it acquires basic phrases such as “robot puts stick on cube.” Prof Nehaniv said: “Our approach is that the robot will use what it learns individually and socially from others to bootstrap the acquisition of language, and will use its language abilities in turn to drive its learning of social and manipulative abilities.This creates a positive feedback cycle between using language and developing other cognitive abilities. “Like a child learning by imitation of its parents and interacting with the environment around it, the robot will master basic principles of structured grammar, like negation, by using these abilities in context.” The scientific and technological research developed during the project will have a significant impact on the future generation of interactive robotic systems within the next 10 years and the leadership role of Europe in this area. Prof Dautenhahn said: “iCub will take us a stage forward in developing robots as social companions. We have studied issues such as how robots should look and how close people will want them to approach and now, within a year, we will have the first humanoid robot capable of developing language skills.”
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