Creating more human-like robots
November 10, 2004 | Source: KurzweilAI
Purdue University is leading an NSF-funded project to enable humanoid robots to move more like people and adapt quickly to new situations so they can complete a variety of tasks they weren’t specifically programmed to perform.
The researchers will record human movements in three dimensions, using sensors placed around certain body parts, such as fingers and arms, as a person moves in a low-level magnetic field. They will use this movement information to build mathematical models to make robots move more like people.