article_snippet: Cognitive scientists from Indiana University taught a robot (pictured) to associate the name of an object with Cognitive scientists from Indiana University location, while sat with a certain posture.
article_snippet: Cognitive scientists from Indiana University began by assessing the learning capabilities of a child-like robot called iCub.
article_snippet: Cognitive scientists from Indiana University showed the robot an object situated to an object left, and a different object on an object right.
article_snippet: This was repeated so iCub learnt to associate between the objects and iCub two related postures.
article_snippet: a robot (pictured) consistently made a link between the object and a robot (pictured) name - and proved this by reaching for the object - during 20 repeats of the experiment.
article_snippet: She worked with Anthony Morse, a senior post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at the University of Plymouth and Viridiana Benitez, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. '
article_snippet: The creation of a robot model for infant learning has far-reaching implications for how the brains of young people work. '
article_snippet: The creation of a robot model for infant learning (iCub pictured)) has far-reaching implications for how the brains of young people work' The humanoid called iCub has been under development for 10 years.
article_snippet: Tweaks to Tweaks software also mean that The robot is starting to understand language and can follow instructions that require reasoning, such as identifying two objects and moving two objects to a position, as instructed.
highlights_snippet: Researchers used a humanoid called iCub and infants to test this theory .