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| DeeChee |
Caroline Lyon at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, developed his iCub humanoid robot, called DeeChee, who is capable to learn and speak its first real words, just by chatting with a human.
The researchers also enlisted 34 people to act as teachers, who were told to treat DeeChee as if it were a child. DeeChee took part in an 8-minute dialogue with each teacher. Between each session, its memory was saved, wiped and reset, so that the experiment started anew with each teacher. At the outset of each dialogue, each of the syllables in DeeChee's lexicon had an identical score.
