Robot Teaches Itself to Shoot Arrows

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.