European scientists have invented a robot that learns math concepts

Scientists at the European research project XPERO have invented a robot that has the ability to learn basic physical and mathematical concepts and use them to move, announced today the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin (West Germany).

concepts such as location or orientation through a system of coordinates.
Initially, the robot moves aimlessly around and fixed simultaneously recorded sensory data, which then used to produce a pattern or model. This pattern makes it possible, later, the android can anticipate the location of objects and how they vary their position when it moves.
The authors of the algorithm, and Ivan Jure Zabkar Bratke, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) stresses that "what a person is something trivial, a robot can lead to an enormous difficulty." He further explained that the android designed "has less knowledge than a baby," since it does not distinguish objects, but only spots of color and the edges of them.
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"You do not have notions of the concept of an object or its position in a coordinate system, nor is it aware of how the system varies according to their own movements," he adds.
Therefore, the robot must not learn to tell a coordinate system, or how.
Scientists have developed a mechanism that allows the PLC to establish a routine that helps to remove the sensory data and to translate them into a model to help explain and anticipate what surrounds it. Using the same algorithm we have taught some physical concepts such as "flexibility" of an object or the "degree of freedom of movement."


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What originally was considered a problem was academic in nature has a great technical importance, says project coordinator Erwin Prassler of the German University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (the west).
The project XPERO sets the groundwork for the first time in the future that will develop the key technology to give birth to the next generation of service robots that can clean the house, mow the lawn or cleaning the shoes. The androids that had been invented to date lack intelligence because they are pre-programmed devices, which are unable to export data that does not know or use operating systems that have not previously studied. However, service robots of the future may treat a large number of new concepts and models on the basis of knowledge and learning and sensory-alerts, and perform new tasks.
Automata XPERO project will provide a demonstration at the conference technological FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) this year, taking place in Prague between now and Thursday, April 23.