International Symposium on Learning 2006 - Day 2 - Part 2

Day 2 - International Symposium on Learning 2006 part II

Friday, December 01, 2006

10:08 AM

 

International Symposium on Learning 2006 sponsored by KAST

 

http://learning.kast.or.kr/

 

Yoshihiko Nakamura

University of Tokyo

 

What do Humanoids Learn from Humans?

 

IRT Foundation for Man and Aged Society (project) to research a broad range of areas involving robotics

 

Humanoid - human-like (resemblance) robots.

 

Discussed the modeling of humanoids by looking at the human anatomy. In particular, the framework of bones, joints, ligaments, and muscles.

 

This is interesting, but where is the learning science connection? When do we talk about learning? If I wanted to build a humanoid, I would be loving this, but this isn't really about what humanoids learn from humans, it's about what robot designers learn from the human body.