University of Washington (UW) researchers Andrew Meltzoff, Rechele Brooks, and Rajesh Rao recently published an interesting article in the October/November 2010 issue of the journal Neural Networks that examined social-communicative interaction that promote gaze following in 18-month-old human toddlers. There was a robotics component to the research: Fujitsu Laboratories’ 25-degrees-of-freedom HOAP-2 humanoid robot played a key role in the study. Even if the research had been carried out without the use of a ‘bot, the results are fascinating.
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