The University of Plymouth is leading a consortium in the UK with the goal of teaching a “baby” robot to speak. The researchers will be working with language development specialists to understand how humans learn speech, and will try to apply that approach to a humanoid robot called the iCub (which, incidentally, looks kind of like Caspar the Friendly Ghost). The first steps will be to teach the robot to name objects and actions and eventually rudimentary phrases, such as… Read More: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/icub/