I came to know about Deb Roy and his research work at MIT about 3 years back and that time as well I admired his dream and what he is doing for the future of technology. Deb made another interesting presentation at TED 2011 and his research work revolve around making robots learn from babies or children. To accomplish this project Deb along with his wife has wired their complete house so that they can record each and every waking second of their baby. Deb decided to record his baby’s speech, movement and cognitive activities for the next 3 years and the data collected over that period of time will then be used to educate robots about human behavior and make robots more human like. Quiet interesting.
Deb works as a cognitive scientist at MIT in the department of Media Lab’s Cognitive Machines Group. 11 cameras, 14 microphones, 10 hours per day of recording (90,000 hours of video) and 200 terabyte of data – these are some of the major number which comes out of his massive research project. Deb along with some of his fellow team members will now try to mine the relevant data from his recordings and if all goes well robots can learn as well like children. It all depends how long robots can take to understand and say dada or mama. Details of Debs contribution to this project and his TED presentation can be found here.
My younger one took around 11 months to say his first complete word –“Daddy”, hopefully machines will learn much faster.
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