Gadgets & Gizmos: Robot Babies Take Over The World

This is right out of a sci-fi novel and I can barely believe it.  Meet the CB2, the child -robot with a biometric body.  This mechanical infant is the newest marvel of science and comes out of Japan at Osaka University.  According to it’s creators CB2 has been developing skills from interating with human beings.  Yea, you got that, it’s a robot that learns like a baby.

To find out more about the “baby” and see of video of it in action keep reading after the jump>>>According to Pinktentacle:

Comprised of robotics engineers, brain specialists, psychologists and other experts, the research team has been teaching the android to think like a baby by having it evaluate facial expressions and classify them into basic categories, such as happiness and sadness.

The 130-centimter (4 ft 4 in) tall, 33-kilogram (73 lb) robot is equipped with eye cameras that record emotional expressions. Designed to learn like an infant, the robot can memorize facial expressions and match them with physical sensations, which it detects via 197 pressure sensors under a suit of soft, silicone skin.

In addition to watching faces, CB2 has been learning to walk. With 51 pneumatic “muscles,” the little android can now amble through a room more smoothly than it could nearly two years ago, though it still requires the aid of a human.

Within two years, the researchers hope the robot will gain the intelligence of a two-year-old child and the ability to speak in basic sentences. In the coming decades, the researchers expect to develop a “robo species” that has learning abilities somewhere between those of humans and chimps.

Well, you know what this mean. No, not that science is amazing and we’re coming so much closer to being a technologically perfect society. Forget that. It totally means that there’s a possibility that Terminators are going to infiltrate our society and make humans extinct, right?

Source: Pinktentacle via kanYe West Blog