[Tyler]

Robots: Learning
     

     
   

The latest episode of the Robots podcast interviews two
experts in robot learning. Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech studies how humans teach and how humanoids learn
with the goal to improve human-robot interaction.
Among other things, Thomaz has designed her own humanoid robot
Simon shown in the video above (have a look at this
non-youtube video to see Simon's expressive ears in action). Our
second guest Sethu Vijayakumar from the
University of Edinburgh has done an
astonishing amount of work spanning the fields of statistical machine
learning, human motor control, Bayesian inference techniques and
computational neuroscience. In the interview Vijayakumar speaks about
the similarities and differences between human and machine learning, and
explains how robots can learn about their environment through physical
interactions. Read
on and tune
in!
   

   

http://robots.net/article/2950.html