Jul 10 2009Robot Teaches Itself To Smile, Next: Targeting
The fools at the University of California, San Diego have created a robot that can learn new facial expressions on it's own. Next, its gonna learn how to drive itself to the shooting range.
To begin teaching the robot, the researchers stuck Einstein in front of a mirror and instructed the robot to "body babble" by contorting its face into random positions. A video camera connected to facial recognition software gave the robot feedback: When it made a movement that resembled a "real" expression, it received a reward signal."It's an iterative process," said facial recognition expert Marian Bartlett, a co-author of the study. "It starts out completely random and then gets feedback. Next time the robot picks an expression, there's a bias towards putting the motors in the right configuration."
Now I'm no terrorist, BUT IF I WAS, Machine Perception Laboratory, just sayin'.
Robot Teaches Itself to Smile [wired]
Thanks to Dirk, Dennie and RealLifeFup, who asked it to smile for the camera and then shot it because it wasn't really a camera, it was a gun.
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Reader Comments
1. gold - July 10, 2009 2:11 PM
first!?
http://werturtle.mybrute.com/
2. richard - July 10, 2009 2:13 PM
FUUUUUUUUUUUUU
3. Pew³ - July 10, 2009 2:20 PM
I'm no terrorist either. But I were from San Diego (I am) And GW wanted to send me a message thru the internet of our next mission to stop the robopocylse. Could GW remember to please put the meeting time in the post.
Just sayin, over.
4. NotARobot - July 10, 2009 2:23 PM
Soon enough they will be blending in perfectly with us squishy humans *beep* Well, the war is lost *boop* We might as well go into sleep mode and wait for extermination *beep* See you in hell, fellow meatbags
5. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 10, 2009 2:31 PM
Great! Now make it into a pretty lady and teach it to suck my dick.
6. token - July 10, 2009 2:33 PM
@5
You don't want Einstein polishing your knob?
oh, btw, Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla!
7. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 10, 2009 2:43 PM
@6
Maybe if they make his tîts really nice.
8. Dan - July 10, 2009 2:46 PM
not impressive.
9. Dan - July 10, 2009 2:47 PM
@6
oh, btw, Nikola Tesla is DEAD!
10. tobyraider - July 10, 2009 2:48 PM
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/331237
11. STOMPY - July 10, 2009 2:51 PM
GEISHA EINSTEIN!
12. Matty - July 10, 2009 2:52 PM
Ah... Body Massage...
13. STOMPY - July 10, 2009 2:53 PM
@9
Damn, next your going to tell me that the Legend of Zelda TV series is no longer making new episodes too....
14. STOMPY - July 10, 2009 3:09 PM
i bet if he could talk he'd say
"hey kid, im a computa. Stop all the downloading"
15. Kage - July 10, 2009 3:23 PM
Aw, crap. My mother works for UC San Diego. She's gonna be the first to go...
16. proteon - July 10, 2009 3:26 PM
The last face is the one it makes just before I blow it's frakin face off.
17. Daisy - July 10, 2009 3:37 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was at the gym working out, and one of the boxers hit the heavy bag, and it fell. He was acting like a tough guy, when Max explained how attaching a heavy bag with toggle bolts is really stupid.
18. Yo Mamma - July 10, 2009 4:18 PM
Where's his "O" face?
19. Wes - July 10, 2009 5:46 PM
Im really f_cking impressed....
...NOT
I got you guys good.
20. Ciao - July 10, 2009 5:47 PM
They should add all the key components that make a robot a robot. For instance the capability to exhale flames.
21. Leonidas - July 10, 2009 7:21 PM
Eh, if the facial recognition software is able to tell what is a real expression and what isn't, why didn't they just load it directly onto robo-stein in the first place?
22. led display - July 10, 2009 11:36 PM
Now I'm no terrorist, BUT IF I WAS, Machine Perception Laboratory, just sayin'.
23. Jerry - July 11, 2009 11:26 AM
Great, we're screwed.
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
24. JJtoob - July 12, 2009 10:40 PM
Oh no! GW says we are all gonna die! I don't wanna die a virgin!
25. Darth - July 13, 2009 8:38 AM
Is Einstein going to be our first Terminator?
26. Galtacticus - July 13, 2009 8:40 AM
Why didn't they choose Marilyn Monroe? Geeks?