A team of researchers built computer algorithms to mimic infant research studies and then tested them on robots to see if they could learn in a similar fashion.

Similar to the way children learn, they taught robots to move their heads by mimicking a human moving its head. These are very basic operations but the long term research could have a major impact on AI technology.

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141965