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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Robots develop own lexicon independent of human language to talk to each other

The new age robots are developing their own language to communicate with each other, and it is independent of the human lexicon which is difficult to understand by the machines.
The Lingodroid research project allows its robots to generate random sounds for the places they visit in both simulations and a real office. This way, they navigate and improve their intellectual ability.
The robots share "words" and play games to establish which sound represents which location.
"Robot-robot languages take the human out of the loop," the BBC quoted Dr Ruth Schulz, project leader from the University of Queensland as saying.
"This is important because the robots demonstrate that they understand the meaning of the words they invent independent of humans," he added.
The wheeled robots travel about and when they reach a place that does not have a name, they generate a random combination of syllables that represent that place.
Subsequently, when that robot meets another one, it tells it about the places it has been. As the robots travel and talk, they narrow down their lexicon of place names until a mutual gazeteer of their world has been generated.
The robots have generated place names such as "kuzo", "jaro" and "fexo". (ANI)