The RobotCub project, developers of the iCub robot, want to develop their robots’ cognitive capabilities by mimicking how small children learn by doing and by comparing their actions to previous experience.

Six European research labs have proposed projects to help train the robots to learn about their surroundings, just as a child would.

iCub robots are about the size of three-year-old children, with highly dexterous hands and fully articulated heads and eyes. They have hearing and touch capabilities and are designed to be able to crawl on all fours and to sit up.