The new algorithmic system will teach robots to help each other

During the experiment, the scientists conducted a simulation on a two-dimensional grid, in which the robots had to perform

physical and social goals.Finding a tree on a grid and watering it was a physical goal, but a social goal was to understand what the other robot was going to do. Depending on this, he should have helped, or, conversely, he should have stopped the device. If, for example, a robot wanted to water a tree, then its partner would try to help it get there faster.

According to scientists, having taught robots elementarysocial skills, people will be able to expand the area of ​​interaction between them and machines. In addition, the new model will help to quantitatively analyze social relations. The data obtained can then be used to study autism or the actions of antidepressants.

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As a result, the researchers identified three typesrobots. Zero-level devices serve only physical purposes. Robots in the first category can think both physically and socially, but they think that all other robots act out of physical motives. Tier 2 machines, on the other hand, imply that other robots are also capable of social relationships. The scientists then gave a few people a look at recordings of how robots acted in a given situation, and then asked them to rate the social behavior of the machines. So scientists found out that the criteria by which the model and people determine social relations, in most cases, coincide.

Researchers plan to equip robotsneural network to speed up the process of accumulating social experience. In addition, they are working on a 3D sensor system that will allow robots to independently perform more complex operations, such as controlling household appliances.

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