Humanoid Toddler Reacts to Touch, Sound

[bleedingheart]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TODDLER_ROBOT?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=home.htm

""Our goal is to study human recognition development such as how the child learns a language, recognizes objects and learns to communicate with his father and mother," he said."

Okay...you build a robot to understand children? How about observing actual children?


Personally unless the humanoid toddler gets into your pots and pans, plays with the outlets, screams and throws a fit (while arching back so you can't hold them) and keeps dashing for the road...I don't think that it is realistic...other parents feel free to chime in with your thoughts as well..

[mainegreen]

1. Arg. That arching back thing is the devil. n/t

[bleedingheart]

2. my son did that to me once and his head hit my ear...and drove a post earring

into that bone behind your ear....it hurt for days afterwards and broke the post...

He arched back..and I was holding him with his face away from me on my hip....big mistake...stopped wearing earrings for a year after that happened...