Machines Like Us

We’re getting better at making robots that look like us, and move creepily like us, but attempting to program our perception and reasoning is proving to be an order of magnitude harder.

The Multi-sensory Autonomous Cognitive Systems (MACS) project is an attempt to imprint robots with the ability to understand the affordances of objects in their environment -- or the physical qualities of an object, and the tasks it can be used for. It is hoped that this new approach to computer perception will allow robots to perceive more interaction possibilities, giving them the cognitive tools they need to successfully improvise and interact with their environment in a more human manner.

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