Baby Robot Grows Strong and Learns to Crawl

“Recently awarded a Dream Time Fellowship by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Grand is working on giving Lucy better eyesight, hearing, stronger muscles and a more powerful brain. Steve hopes Lucy will be able to learn to crawl before taking those first steps and repeating simple sounds, just like other toddlers do.

Lucy’s brain was built to explore ways in which machines could be given the capacity for imagination. The design of the bot’s brain was guided by a key set of hunches about how such a mechanism could be artificially engineered using simulated neurons and biochemicals.”