Baby Robot to be Taught How to Speak

Researchers at the University of Plymouth will be spending the next 4 years teaching a robot baby named “iCub” to learn to speak.

The project is believed to be the first of its kind in the world and typical experiments with the iCub robot will include activities such as inserting objects of various shapes into the corresponding holes in a box, serialising nested cups and stacking wooden blocks.

The similarity of iCub to the NS-5 from the 2004 movie I, Robot is purely coincidental, I’m sure.