Alan meets Ripley ? a robot that consists of an arm and a hand with eyes and that tries to understand the world around it. That world is pretty much constrained to a white tabletop, a few objects on the table and ? while Alan is visiting ? Alan’s face. Ripley, like a human infant, is learning what things are by experiencing them. The robot responds to Alan’s request to “pick up the heavy one” by weighing the two objects on the table in front of it. Two years ago Alan was present for the first public appearance of Leonardo, a robot co-designed by MIT’s Cynthia Breazeal and the Hollywood special effects wizard Stan Winston.
Leonardo’s special talent is its cuteness, since it encourages the humans it encounters to want to interact with it. Since that first meeting, Leonardo has acquired the ability to learn from these interactions and can now perform simple tasks on its own once it has been told how to do them. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston we meet Robonaut, a robot designed to become a fully-fledged member of an astronaut team, helping to build structures in space and exploring other planets. We seen Robonaut — presently remotely controlled by a human — as it uses the tools it would employ in space, and as it tests out a new set of wheels for its earthbound practice sessions.
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