Canine-inspired robot research
Just when we think we have a handle on all the incredible ways that dogs enhance our lives and our understanding of the world, new work with dogs expands that sphere even further. Graduate student Kiana Ehsani at the University of Washington has a great collaborator named Kelp, an Alaskan Malamute, who is a key partner in her quest to create an artificial intelligence system that thinks like a dog. The long-term goal is to produce a robot that is enough like a dog to perform many of the task that dogs are trained to do for humans. Though that may seem like a faraway dream, Ehsani’s research project is edging ever closer to that possibility.
via Whisker Therapy