On Slice of SciFi 283, we brought you a story about robots being taught how to lie.
Now comes news that a robot has taught itself to shoot an arrow.
Next step: Skynet.
The robot in question is an iCub, designed by a team at Italian Institute of Technology. The iCub, equipped with a bow, arrow and a computer algorithm called ARCHER, which stands for Augmented Reward Chained Regression, uses a camera to process a bull’s-eye image, analyze failed attempts and adjust angle, force or trajectory to compensate.
Thanks to YouTube, there’s even a video of the robot in action.
Yeah, this should end well.
Let me once again be the first to welcome our future robot overlords.
OK, so it can learn to shoot an arrow, but can it paint a copy of the Mona Lisa?
What's next; robot learns to shoot a Tec-9 and do drive-by's?