Scientists on Planet Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development. The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team of researchers at Osaka University and is designed to move just like a real child between 1 and 3 years old. Just over 4 feet tall and weighing 73 pounds, the robot changes facial expressions and can rock back and forth.How is it possible? What could explain this? For one, the robot's movements are smooth as it is fitted with 56 actuators in lieu of muscle. It has 197 sensors for touch, small cameras working as eyes, and an audio sensor. CB2 can also speak using an artificial vocal cord.
"Our goal is to study human recognition development such as how the child learns a language, recognizes objects and learns to communicate with his father and mother," said Minoru Asada, a professor at Osaka University who led the project.
I suspect something fishy* is going on. Last I heard, there were lots of toddlers still in Japan. Why would you create an artificial version of something you want to study when you have the real thing there? What's next, researchers creating a language so they can study how language is learned? It already exists! Just ask the programmer who conditioned all the responses for robo-kid and he'll tell you how it will respond if you're too lazy to study real children. Somebody tell me why I'm not running things at Osaka U? I got things dialed in.
They're probably trying to create some weird, perfect pedophile abuse sexbot, or worse, something so dark and sinister that it would shatter your soul. Like goatse.
*not a reference to the sushi chain
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