Humans and humanoids
In the near future man will live and work with robots built as his image and likeness, increasingly sophisticated in the cognitive and emotional aspects. A fascinating perspective that raises unavoidable questions which we must be ready to answer. We have in our country an institute of high international level, the IIT Genoa, which is engaged on this research and that gave birth to the project “iCub” the creation of a robot the size of a 5 year old boy. Designed to address the border between mechatronics and artificial intelligence, it has a sight, sound, tactile skin and language, learn new things every day, is able to play, to write, to recognize objects and so on.
Meeting with prof. Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta is one of the fathers of “iCub”; engineer, is the Director of “iCub Facility” of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK ), author of several books, worked at MIT in Boston, has been responsible for several European projects as a consultant and expert in robotics in the programs of the European Commission. Co-author of the book “Humans and Humanoids, living with robots” Il Mulino, 2015.