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Robots that have made up their own language
The University of Queensland, Australia has developed a pair of robots called ‘Lingodroids’, which have invented a shared language with each other. They play location games that allow them to construct a vocabulary for names of places, directions and distances.
Ruth Schulz, director of the project, said “In their current state all they can talk about is spatial concepts, which I think is pretty cool as a starting point… the important part is that they are forming these concepts, they are starting to really understand what words mean and this is actually all up to the robots themselves.”
Each robot has sonar, a camera, a laser range finder, microphones and speakers which allow them to communicate with each other as they move around their environment. They play “wher4e are we” games, negotiating obstacles like chairs and desks, and beeping when they are close to each other.
When a robot finds an area it doesn’t have a name for, it randomly generates a word for it, and tell the other robot what they have discovered. This has led to them slowly building up an agreed vocabulary. The robots can even direct each other to a certain location in their environment using their language.
“The long term vision is robots that you can use in a domestic environment… real people interacting with real robots in a natural way,” said Schulz. “You don’t want to be pressing buttons to communicate with your robot in the home that you just want to clean your kitchen,” she explained.
“If you want it to clean your kitchen, you just have to say, ‘can you please clean my kitchen.’”
View | 0 Comments | Posted By ccameron | Posted 28th November 2011
Robots that have made up their own language
The University of Queensland, Australia has developed a pair of robots called ‘Lingodroids’, which have invented a shared language with each other. They play location games that allow them to construct a vocabulary for names of places, directions and distances.
Ruth Schulz, director of the project, said “In their current state all they can talk about is spatial concepts, which I think is pretty cool as a starting point… the important part is that they are forming these concepts, they are starting to really understand what words mean and this is actually all up to the robots themselves.”
Each robot has sonar, a camera, a laser range finder, microphones and speakers which allow them to communicate with each other as they move around their environment. They play “wher4e are we” games, negotiating obstacles like chairs and desks, and beeping when they are close to each other.
When a robot finds an area it doesn’t have a name for, it randomly generates a word for it, and tell the other robot what they have discovered. This has led to them slowly building up an agreed vocabulary. The robots can even direct each other to a certain location in their environment using their language.
“The long term vision is robots that you can use in a domestic environment… real people interacting with real robots in a natural way,” said Schulz. “You don’t want to be pressing buttons to communicate with your robot in the home that you just want to clean your kitchen,” she explained.
“If you want it to clean your kitchen, you just have to say, ‘can you please clean my kitchen.’”
View | 0 Comments | Posted By ccameron | Posted 28th November 2011
