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Video shows a robot learning to approach and avoid objects.
The video shows initial testing of a robot that has learned to associate likes and dislikes with a particular color in its environment. The video shows a robot navigating in the environment that consists of red and green cylindrical objects and the dynamics of learning in the Cog environment, which researchers used to generate the model that controls the robot.
Credit: Gennady Livitz, CELEST, Boston University
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