{"id":280,"date":"2007-06-14T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-14T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T16:59:00","slug":"robots-learn-new-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/280-robots-learn-new-skills.html","title":{"rendered":"Robots learn new skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology said the system, which it described as a world first, allows robots to move beyond recognition of only certain nouns to understand even ambiguous phrases.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;Robots would become able to acquire communications abilities that would allow them to appropriately grasp the user&rsquo;s intent and situations by exchanging with the user, as with child development,&rdquo; it said in a statement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">For example, if a robot asks someone if they want a coffee and the person replies &ldquo;coffee would wake me up&quot;, the machine would be able to judge whether the user wishes to stay awake, and thus whether they want the coffee, the institute said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The government-backed institute conducts basic research, with no immediate plans announced on how to put it to practical use.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=78245\">Comments<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese researchers say they have developed a new system that will allow robots to learn their own communication skills and conversation patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}