4:32 PM ET Joe Palca Facebook Twitter Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. YouTube Babies learn how to identify and pick up objects in their world through trial and error. Now a computer scientist is trying the same approach with robots. Robots have been around for decades, so you'd think by now they'd be able to do some useful things, such as put away the groceries or unload the dishwasher. It turns out these tasks are devilishly hard for robots. All Tech Considered Could This Robot Save Your Job? So Stefanie Tellex is starting simple. Tellex is an assistant professor in the computer science department at Brown University. She's...
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