The Robot in the Crib

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The Robot in the Crib

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1 ) The background or motivation for the study , and the authors hypotheses or expectations

One 's life is the distance that one covers from the womb to the tomb It is the mammoth journey , the joint efforts of about 500million sperm They travel through the vagina , move to the uterus and reach the fallopian tube . Since sperm have a sense of smell , they smell their way to the egg . When egg and sperm merge and become

one , conception takes place .And this is the beginning of enquiry , for a set of individuals that are outside the womb-the brain scientists /the developmental psychologists ! The growth of two separate yet one consciousnesses , one growing within the other , is the marvel of nature , which is the concern of scientists for investigation . The actual study related to the subject of this article is the post-womb growth of the child , when it comes out after completing the nine month 's journey within . Research has revealed that human beings develop the capacity to understand other 's intentions during early in the first year of life . The developmental scientists lay emphasis of the brilliance of little minds and caution not to underestimate the brain capacity of the babies . It has been observed that the newborn babies , 42 minute old , imitate facial expressions Stick your tongue out and see that the baby sticking its tongue out This behavior is the pointer to something intense and deep within . The baby knows more than what you imagine it to know . Why and how the infants behave the way they do ? Will roboticsts be able to match and reproduce the movements and talents related to various expressions of infants accurately ? This is the prime motivation for research by the Developmental Psychologists

2 ) A brief of the participants , procedure , and methods

What is fundamental to human thought is the ability to read the intentions of other people . Not the physical motions involved , but the goals or intentions that cause these motions are important . Initially infants ' action is that of grasping . Secondly even when the baby does not physically act on , it has the foundation for understanding when others attend to objects . To cite an example , when a person opens the lid of a box , the baby becomes aware that the goal is not the box , but the object inside the box . Further developments will provide the foundation , the initiative to learn from their caregivers . During the second year , children adopt critical abilities , like language culturally appropriate behavior etc . They constantly observe the adults and try to emulate them

Developmental psychologists have dedicated significant effort to studying the developmental progression of infant imitation skills because imitation underlies the infant 's ability to understand and learn from his or her social environment (Demirisa ) This has been an ideal issue for the roboticsts to intervene and make efforts to equip robots with the ability to observe and emulate human actions...