New breed of cognitive robot... a puppy?

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Puzzled? Prepare for a new breed of cognitive, thinking robots. Photo: COSPAL

Designers of artificial cognitive systems have tended to adopt one of two approaches to building robots that can think for themselves: classical rule-based artificial intelligence or artificial neural networks. Both have advantages and disadvantages, and combining the two offers the best of both worlds, say a team of European researchers who have developed a new breed of cognitive, learning robot that goes beyond the state of the art.

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