Robot uses AI to teach itself to write in languages it's never seen before

One day in the not-so-distant future, robots could help humans out in the workplace by taking notes or sketching helpful diagrams. That's one of the objectives of a new robot created by researchers from Brown University that can learn to write languages and sketch drawings practically on its own. After learning to write Japanese characters, the robot was able to teach itself how to copy words in 10 different languages, including Hindi, Greek and English, just by studying various examples. It uses an algorithm that helps the robot decide where and how to place each pen stroke that distinguishes each letter in the alphabet, as well as what order to place them in to make the correct word. 'Just by looking at a target image of a word or sketch, the robot can reproduce each stroke as one continuous action,' Atsunobi Kotani, who led the study, said in a statement.