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	Robot Teaches Itself to Smile

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8-1-2009 5:57 AM

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8-1-2009 9:34 PM

mcsmithblack

Just the "charmingest" robot I ever saw!

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Teaches Itself to Smile</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/DE5724EE-87F0-4A32-B52A-672852059EC9" alt="einstein" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/"><P>A robot has taught itself to smile, frown, and make other human facial expressions using machine learning.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/">To get the incredibly realistic Einstein robot to make facial expressions, 
researchers used to have to program each of its 31 artificial muscles 
individually through trial and error. Now, computer scientists from the Machine 
Perception Laboratory </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/">used machine learning to enable the robot to learn expressions on its own.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/">The robotic approach is the ultimate in helping us understand learning and 
development</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/">There’s so much we can learn by actually trying to make it happen instead of 
just watching kids try to move their faces — it’s like having a baby as opposed 
to just watching a baby</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/category/brain-and-behavior/"> this is the first time anyone has used machine learning to teach a robot to 
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and instructed the robot to “body babble” by contorting its face into random 
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