Robots Lingodroids Talk To Each Other

Lingodroids Talking In Their Own Language

By STAFF Writer

It’s not a sci-fi movie stratagem or a plot straight comes out from Michael Crichton’s science fiction, but it’s a real verity of robotics technology. Ruth Schulz and her colleagues at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology have made a robot couple who can talk to each other in their own words. Australian researchers have invented new spoken words for their robots so that they can talk to each other, telling where they are and what they want.

Australian researchers call their special robots Lingodroids, which are equipped with a camera, laser range finder and sonar for mapping and avoid obstructions. The robots communicate with each by microphones and speakers. It is believed that a new lexicon will be emerged after this significant invention in the field of robotics where robots can communicate to each other.

To understand the concept let takes a simple hypothesis. One fine morning you wake and find your memory is completely washed away and you can’t understand or speak any language. And then you meet another person of similar condition as you are. What do you do?

(If) you are not transformed into an idiot and brain is properly functioning, then you might very well end up with inventing new random words to communicate with other person where you are right now and what you want. This can establish an initial connection between you and other person. On this hypothesis, the Lingodroids are made up of. A robot when find itself in an alien situation, choosing words from a random combination from a set of syllables to illustrate the situation. Through those words, it communicates to another one and elucidates the name of the place.

The elemental theory is this hypothesis on which robots have been developed who can play games with each other, using the robotic language. For example, a robot tells other robot “kuzo” and then both robots search for “kuzo” and when they reach the same connecting point, one can communicate with other asking for more abstract concepts like direction and distance via peculiar words.

After playing numerous games, the robots come to an agreement on direction within 10 degrees and distance within 0.375 meters. Even the robots have created spatial maps for the areas they explore and unable to explore.

Schulz and her colleagues -- Arren Glover, Michael J. Milford, Gordon Wyeth, and Janet Wiles presented their detail work in a paper, , "Lingodroids: Studies in Spatial Cognition and Language". In future, researchers hope that the Lingodroids would able to talk about more complicated subject. Some scientists even expect more ambitious plan to enable robots to communicate with humans.