Will One Small Step for AI Be One Giant Leap for Robotics?

Have you ever wondered how human-like a robot can become? Researchers are one step closer, literally, to machines having more human-like capabilities. A cross-disciplinary research team from the University of Southern California (USC) departments of engineering (biomedical, electrical, aerospace and mechanical), computer science, biokinesiology, and physical therapy joined forces to create a robot that can teach itself to walk. Valero-Cuevas published their findings recently in Nature Machine Intelligence on March 11, 2019. The researchers created a "biologically plausible algorithm" called "G2P" (general to particular).