Lawmakers want to ban AI toys. Lego wants kids to build AI themselves

Sliwinski says Lego wanted to move past the two dominant narratives around AI and children. One frames AI as an unstoppable force that will render kids obsolete before adulthood. The other calls for ...
IEEE

Learning Multimodal Latent Dynamics for Human–Robot Interaction

Abstract: This article presents a method for learning well-coordinated human–robot interaction (HRI) from human–human interactions (HHI). We devise a hybrid approach using hidden Markov models (HMMs) ...
BGR

5 Cool New Robots You Can Buy On Amazon

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...
IEEE

Storm: An Experience-Based Framework for Robot Learning From Demonstration

Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) can be used to increase the behavioural repertoire of a robot, but most demonstration-based learning techniques do not enable a robot to acquire knowledge ...
The New York Times

Does China Have a Robot Bubble?

The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...